BUILDING.-Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

ST. LUKE, Chap. XIV. Verse 31.

Much more, in this great work,

(Which is, almost, to pluck a kingdom down
And set another up,) should we survey
The plot of situation, and the model;
Consent upon a sure foundation;

Question surveyors; know our own estate,
How able such a work to undergo,
To weigh against his opposite; or else,
We fortify in paper, and in figures,
Using the names of men instead of men :
Like one that draws the model of a house
Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,
Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost
A naked subject to the weeping clouds,
And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act I.
Scene 3. (Lord Bardolph.)

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.

YOUNG.-Love of Fame, Line 171.

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 215.

BULLET.-The bullet has its billet.

OLD PLAY; SCOTT.-Count Robert of Paris,
Chap. XXV.

BURKE-Oft have I wonder'd that on Irish ground
No poisonous reptiles ever yet were found:
Reveal'd the secret stands of Nature's work;
She saved her venom to create a BURKE.

WARREN HASTINGS.-An epigram produced by
him when writhing under the agony of a
protracted prosecution. (Encyc. Brit. Vol. XI.
p. 164; 7th edition.)

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
We scarcely can praise it, or blame it, too much;
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
GOLDSMITH.-Retaliation, Line 29.

BURKE.-One large of soul, of genius unconfined,
Born to delight, instruct, and mend mankind;
Burke in whose breast a Roman ardour glow'd;
Whose copious tone with Grecian richness flow'd;
Well hast thou found, if such thy country's doom,
A timely refuge in the sheltering tomb.

CANNING.-New Morality.

Born not for himself alone, but for the whole world.
LUCAN; CICERO.-Riley's Dict. Class. Quot.
pp. 253, 281, 285.

Though equal to all things, for all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit;
For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient;
And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
GOLDSMITH.-Retaliation, Line 37.

BURN.-One fire burns out another's burning.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 2. (Benvolio to Romeo.)

Come, we burn daylight.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 4.
(Mercutio to Romeo.)

BUSH.-Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part III. Act V.
Scene 6. (Gloster to the King.)

Or, in the night, imagining some fear,

How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V.
Scene 1. (Theseus to Hippolyta.)

BUSINESS-I am going to parliament;

You understand this bag: if you have any business
Depending there, be short and let me hear it-
And pay your fees.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Little French
Lawyer, Act I. Scene 1.

He that attends to his interior self,

That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,

Has business.

COWPER.-The Garden, Line 373.

BUSY.

In the busy haunts of men,

In the still and shadowy glen.

MRS. HEMANS.-Tale of the Secret Tribunal.

Tower'd cities please us then,

And the busy hum of men.

MILTON.-L'Allegro, Line 118.

BUTTER.-'Twas her brother that in pure kindness to his horse butter'd his hay.

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act II. Scene 4.
(The Fool to Lear.)

But now I fear it will be said,

No butter sticks upon his bread

SWIFT.-Pastoral Dialogue.

BUTTERFLY.-Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel!

POPE.-Epi. to Arbuthnot, Line 305.

Ocean into tempest wrought,

To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

YOUNG.-Night I. Line 153.

BY.-By and by is easily said.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.
(Hamlet to his Friends.)

BY-GONES.-Let by-gones be by-gones.
OLD SAYING.

Let us not burthen our remembrances with

A heaviness that's gone.

SHAKSPERE.-The Tempest, Act V. Scene 1.
(Prospero to Alonso.)

CABIN'D.—But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, coffin'd, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4.
(Macbeth to First Murderer.)

CESAR.-Cæsar with a senate at his heels.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 258.

As for Cæsar,

Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.

SHAKSPERE.-Antony and Cleopatra, Act III.
Scene 2. (Enobarbus to Agrippa.)

CESAR.-What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?

SHAKSPERE. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene I.
(Marcellus to Citizens.)

Imperial Cæsar, dead, and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away;
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall, to expel the winter's flaw!
SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act V. Scene I.
(To Horatio.)

How like a deer, stricken by many princes,

Dost thou here lie.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene I. (Mark Anthony lamenting over Cæsar.)

CAKES AND ALE.-Dost thou think because thou art vir

tuous,

There shall be no more cakes and ale?

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 3. (Sir Toby to the Clown.)

CALAMITIES.-Since, with an equal weight on all,
Calamities domestic fall.

WHEELWRIGHT's Pindar, 1st Nemean Ode, Line 78.

CALEDONIA.-O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood,

Land of my sires! what mortal hand,
Can e'er untie the filial band

That knits me to thy rugged strand!

SCOTT.-Last Minstrel, Canto VI. Stanza 2.

CALM.-How calm, how beautiful comes on

The stilly hour, when storms are gone.

TOM MOORE.-The Fire Worshippers.

The holy calm that leads to heavenly musing.

ROGERS.-Human Life, Page 83, Edition 1834.

1. See me, how calm I am.

2. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. GOLDSMITH.-She Stoops to Conquer.

CALUMNY.-Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,

thou

shalt not escape calumny. SHAKSPERE.

Hamlet, Act III. Scene I.

(Hamlet to Ophelia.)

Virtue itself escapes not calumnious strokes.

SHAKSPERE. Ibid., Act I. Scene 3. (Laertes.)

CANDLE.-1. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

2. When the moon shone we did not see the candle;
So doth the greater glory dim the less.

SHAKSPERE. Merchant of Venice, Act V
Scene 1. (Portia and Nerissa.)

He that adds anything to you, 'tis done

Like his that lights a candle to the sun.

FLETCHER.-To Sir Walter Aston, Line 19.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Vol. II. Page 13.

CANKER.-That which the palmer-worm hath left, hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left, hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left, hath the caterpillar eaten.

JOEL.-Chap. I. Verse 4.

In the sweetest bud

The eating canker dwells.

SHAKSPERE.-Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I
Scene 1. (Proteus to Valentine.)

Now will canker sorrow eat my bud.

SHAKSPERE.—King John, Act III. Scene 4.
(Constance.)

Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds.

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer's Night's Dream,
Act II. Scene 3. (Titania.)

She never told her love,

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,

Feed on her damask cheek.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 4. (Viola.)

So far from sounding and discovery

As is the bud bit with an envious worm,

Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,

Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 1. (Montagu to Benvolio.)