Chapter BORROWER to BRAVE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

BORROWER to BRAVE

BORROWER.—Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Polonius to Laertes.)

BOSOM.—My bosom’s lord sits lightly on his throne.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 1. (Romeo to himself.)

BOUNDS.—Who shut up the sea with doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

Job.—Chap. XXXVIII. Verses 8–11.

Thou hast set them their bounds, which they shall not pass: neither turn again to cover the earth.

Psalm CIV. Verse 9.

Fear ye not me? Will ye not tremble at my presence? which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea.

Jeremiah.—Chap. V. Verse 22.

The firstè Mover of the cause above,
When he first made the fairè chain of love.
Great was th’ effect, and high was his intent;
Well wist he why, and what thereof he meant;
For with that fairè chain of love he bond
The fire, the air, the water, and the lond
In certain bondès, that they may not flee.

Chaucer.—The Knight’s Tale, Line 2989.

BOUNTIES.—And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

Young.—Night I. Line 64.

BOUNTY.—My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep, the more I give to thee
The more I have, for both are infinite.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2. (Juliet to Romeo.)

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus’d too widely.

Goldsmith.—The Good natured Man, Act III.

BOWL.—Around whose lips ivy twines on high.

Banks’ Theocritus.—Idyll I. Verse 29.

BOWL.—And in this bowl, where wanton ivy twines,
And swelling clusters bend the curling vines,
Four figures rising from their work appear,
The various seasons of the rolling year.

Pope.—Pastoral, Spring, Line 35.

BOXES.—And about his shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 1. (Romeo, solus.)

BOY.—Ah! happy years! once more, who would not be a boy?