BRAVERY BRIBERY 83 14 Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Urguentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). HORACE-Odes. Bk. IV, IX. 25. (See also BYRON) 2 True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Maxims. 216. What's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us. Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. Sc. 15. L. 86. 15 Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare, The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. TACITUS—Annales. II. 46. 16 3 There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! dicott. Act II. Sc. 2. Fortes fortuna adjuvat. Fortune favors the brave. TERENCE-Phormio. I. 4. 26. Quoted as a proverb. (See also OVID) 17 Bravery never goes out of fashion. THACKERAY-Four Georges. George Second. 18 How well Horatius kept the bridge 70. 5 Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest. In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. MARTIAL-Epigrams. XI. 56. 15. 6 'Tis more brave To live, than to die. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)-Lucile. Pt. II. Canto VI. St. 11. 7 Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant. Fortune and love favour the brave. OVID-Ars Amatoria. Bk. I. 608. (See also DRYDEN, SCHILLER, TERENCE, VERGIL) Omne solum forti patria est. The brave find a home in every land. Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favours the daring. phrase or idea found in CICERO—De Finibus. (See also OVID) 8 20 9 Audentes deus ipse juvat. God himself favors the brave. 10 Who combats bravely is not therefore brave: He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave. POPE-Moral Essays. Epistle I. L. 115. 11 God helps the brave. (See also OVID) SCOTT Lady of the Lake Canto V. St. 10. 'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext’rous; some by fea tures Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place --as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash—but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices. BYRON—Don Juan. Canto V. St. 27. (See also WALPOLE) Flowery oratory he (Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, “All those men have their price.” Coxe-Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. IV. P. 369. (See also BYRON, WALPOLE) 21 22 13 He did look far All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 26. A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. DEMOSTHENES, bribed not to speak against HARPALUS, he pretended to have lost his voice. PLUTARCH quotes the accusation as above. Also elsewhere refers to it as the "silver quinsey." Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! CHARLES MORRIS—Pitt and Dundas's Return to London from Wimbledon. American Song. From Lyra Urbanica. 2 Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations; Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown; Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London. Billy Pitt and the Farmer. Printed in “Asylum for Fugitive Pieces" (1786), without author's name. 3 Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made America. REV. F. B. ZINCKLE—Last Winter in the United States. (1868) (See also HOLMES) How sleep the brave, who sink to Alfred the Great, altere4. THOMPSON and MALLE! Brave men are brave fr (See also COWPER— On the L 12 can, L. 2,015. The god-li His vali (So sh The lovely Sate like. In flower Ha' 1. L. 3. Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann, As when the Organ's music rolls; The deeds of great and noble souls. BÜRGER-Lied von Braven Mann. 6 - the hills to meci či by beautiful abode see if yonder shadowy mo ang, and fill the - Broak. st. 1. 7 Brave men were living before Agamemnon. BYRON—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 5. (See also HORACE) The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed w odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save: A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they—now furious as the sweeping wa Now moved with pity; even as sometim The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage 1 BYRON—Don Juan. Canto VIII.S Tad IT:2: - Je ulien Legend. mert nei conversation. inst Sue. l was le place olish man, you don't even know your Ish business. STERFIELD to John Anstis, the Garter ning of Arms. Attributed to him in JESSE'S Memories of the Courts of the Stuarts Nassau and Hanover. (See also MAULE, WESTBURY) 16 This business will never hold water. COLLEY CIBBER—She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not. Act IV. 17 They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. COKE-Reports. Vol. V. The Case of Sutton's Hospital. CAMPBELL-Lives of the Lords (See also HAZLITT, HONE, THURLOW) COWPER—Retirement. L. 614. 19 Swear, fool, or starve; for the dilemma's even; A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven? DRYDEN-Persius. Sat. V. L. 204. AND) and dispatch s on the door of DIBDIN— Introduc of ARCHIAS OF THEBES, BROOKS In the leafy month of June, Singeth a quiet tune. St. 18. 7 8 17 No mortal thing can bear so high a price, 'Tis gold Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up Their deer to the stand o' the stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man. Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 72. There is gold for you. What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? Julius Cæsar. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 22. 9 From Helicon's harmonious springs GRAY-The Progress of Poesy. I. 1. L. 3. 18 Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. HOOD-Town and Country. St. 9. Thou hastenest down between the hills to mee i me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light. LUCY LARCOM-Friend Brook. St. 1. 19 10 BUSINESS BUSINESS 85 11 12 2 3 Gently running made sweet music with the When we speak of the commerce with our enameled stones and seemed to give a gentle colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unkiss to every sedge he overtook in his watery fruitful, and imagination cold and barren. pilgrimage. BURKE-Speech on the Conciliation of America. Seven Champions. Pt. III. Ch. XII. In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch He makes sweet music with the enameled stones, Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage contentGiving a gentle kiss to every sedge, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 7. GEORGE CANNING's dispatch to SIR CHARLES Bagot, Jan. 31, 1826. See Notes and Queries, Oct. 4, 1902. P. 270. Claimed for MAR· I chatter, chatter, as I flow VELL in London Morning Post, May 25, To join the brimming river, 1904. For men may come and men may go, In making of treaties the fault of the Dutch, But I go on forever. Is giving too little and asking too much. TENNYSON—The Brook. Given as a verbatim copy of the dispatch. Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew; Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. And whom the curious painter doth pursue Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks, merry and wise. GEORGE CHAPMAN–Eastward Ho. Act I. And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks. Sc. 1. WORDSWORTH–Brook! Whose Society the Poet (Written by CHAPMAN, JONSON and MARSTON.) Despatch is the soul of business. CHESTERFIELD-Letters. Feb. 5, 1750. 13 14 15 BURDENS (See CARE) 5 BUSINESS to have been delivered at Philadelphia State You foolish man, you don't even know your King of Arms. Attributed to him in JESSE'S (See also MAULE, WESTBURY) Not. Act IV. 17 They (corporations) cannot commit treason, Hospital. CAMPBELL-Lives of the Lords (See also HAZLITT, HONE, THURLOW) COWPER-Retirement. L. 614. 19 Swear, fool, or starve; for the dilemma's even; DRYDEN-Persius. Sat. V. L. 204. |
