In giving giant bulks to others, takes from
The prince's just proportion, they lose
The name of virtues, and, their natures
changed,

Grow the most dangerous vices.

BOWER-An Arabian.

Wide galleries ran all around the four sides, whose Moorish arches, slender pillars, and arabesque ornaments, carried the mind back, as in a dream, to the reign of Oriental romance in Spain. In the middle of the court, a fountain threw high its silvery water, falling in a never-ceasing spray into a marble basin, fringed with a deep border of fragrant violets. The water in the fountain, pellucid as crystal, was aive with myriads of gold and silver fishes, twinkling and darting through it, like so many living jewels. Around the fountain ran a walk, paved with a mosaic of pebbles, laid in various fanciful patterns; and this again was surrounded by turf smooth as green velvet. Two large orange-trees, now fragrant with blossoms, threw a delicious shade; arabesque sculpture, containing the choicest flowering plants of the tropics; huge pomegranate-trees, with their glossy leaves and flame-coloured flowers, darkleaved Arabian jessamines, with their silvery stars, geraniums, luxuriant roses bending beneath their heavy abundance of flowers, golden jessamines, lemon-scented verbenum, all united their bloom and fragrance, while here and there a mystic old aloe, with its strange, massive leaves, sat looking like some hoary old enchanter, sitting in weird grandeur among the more perishable bloom and fragrance around it. Mrs. Stowe.

BOWER-a Blissful.

And over him Art stryving to compayre
With Nature did an arber greene dispred,
Framed of wanton yvie, flouring fayre,
Through which the fragrant eglantine did spred
His prickling armes, entrayld with roses red,
Which daintie odours round about them threw;
And all within with flowres was garnished,
That when myld Zephyrus emongst them blew,
Did breath out bounteous smels, and painted
colors shew.

And fast beside there trickled softly downe
A gentle streame, whose murmuring wave did
play

Emongst the pumy stones, and made a sowne,
To lull him soft asleepe that by it lay:
The wearie traveller, wandring that way,
Therein did often quench his thirsty heat,
And then by it his wearie limbes display,
Whiles creeping slombre made him to forget
His former payne, and wypt away his toilsom

sweat

Therein the merry birdes of every sorte
Chaunted alowd their cheerfull harmonee.
And made emongst themselves a sweete consort,
That quickned the dull spright with musicall
comfort.
Spenser.

BOWER.

BOWER-of Honeysuckles.

Bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter;-like to favourites,

Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it. Shakspeare.

BOYHOOD-Companion of.

I had

A friend with whorn in boyhood I was wont
To learn, think, laugh, weep, strive, and love
together;

For we were always rivals in all things-
Together up high, springy hills, to trace
A runnel to its birth-place; to pursue
A river; to search, haunt old ruined towers,
And muse in them; to scale the cloud-clad hills
While thunders murmured in our very ear;
To leap the lair of the live cataract,
Or crouch behind the broad white waterfall-

Tongue of the glen, like to a hidden thoughtTo reach, perchance, some long, green floating flag,

Just when the sun's hot lip first touched the

BOYS-Characteristics of.

Boys are boys, and not little men. They are all alike except as to the colour of the

hair or pinafore.

BRAIN.

They all inherit the same

pride, the same devil-may-care" ambition, the same spirit of mischief, and the same freemasonry of mutual confidence in all affairs relating to the government of the boy-world.

Where is the boy who is willing to be outdone by a playmate? Where is the boy who will acknowledge to being beaten in fight with one of another school? Wherever such a one is to be found, guard him well, for fear he should grow up silly. It is positively astonishing what hairbreadth ventures boys engage in, merely to gratify some pride of rivalry, or to satisfy the eternal longing of a boy "to do something." In fact, there is nothing within range of possibility which a boy will not do, let the consequence be what it may, provided there is no unmistakable criminality; and then you learn what an honest nature lurks beneath that Puck's grinning countenance, resting on its own self-trust, and to be neither bought nor sold.

Hibberd.

BRIBERY.

BRIBERY-No Faith in.

Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold,
Shall ever find such faith so bought so sold.
Marston.

BRIBERY-of Judges and Senates.
Judges and senates have been bought for gold;
Esteem and love were never to be sold. Pope.

BRITAIN (Great)-Blessings of.
The slow ascending hill, the lofty wood
That mantles o'er its brow, the silver flood
Meandering in mazes through the flow'ry mead,
The herd that in the plenteous pastures feed,
And every object, every scene, excites

Fresh wonder in my soul, and fills with new delights:

Dwells cheerful plenty there, and learned ease,
And art with nature seems at strife to please :
There Liberty, delightful goddess! reigns,
Gladdens each heart, and gilds the fertile plains;
There, firmly seated, may she ever smile,
And shower her blessings o'er her fav'rite isle.
Lisle.

I moved on

With low and languid thought, for I had found
That grandest scenes have but imperfect charms
Where the eye vainly wanders, nor beholds
One spot with which the heart associates
Holy remembrances of child or friend,
Or gentle maid, our first and early love,
Or father, or the venerable name
Of our adored country. O thou queen,
Thou delegated deity of earth;

Oh, "dear, dear," England, how my longing eyes,

Turn'd westward, shaping in the steady clouds Thy sands and high white cliffs! Sweet

native isle,

BRITAIN (Great)-the Seat of Freedom.
O native isle! fair freedom's happiest seat,
At thought of thee my bounding pulses beat:
At thought of thee my heart impatient burns,
And all my country on my soul returns.
When shall I see thy fields, whose plenteous
grain

No power can ravish from th' industrious swain?
When kiss with pious love the sacred earth
That gave a Burleigh or a Russell birth?
When in the shade of laws that long have stood,
Propp'd by their care, or strengthen'd by their
blood:

Of fearless independence wisely vain,
The proudest slave of Bourbon's race disdain?
Lord Lyttleton.

BRITAIN.

BRITAIN (Great)-Physical Glories of.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,

This fortress, built by Nature for herself,
Against infection, and the hand of war;
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
This happy breed of men, this little world,

Which serves it in the office of a wall;
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands;
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd for their breed, and famous by their
birth,

Renowned for their deeds, as far from home
For Christian service and true chivalry.

Shakspeare.

Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around,

Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires,

And glittering towns, and gilded streamers, till all

The stretching landscape into smoke decays!
Happy Britannia! where the Queen of Arts,
Walks unconfined, even to the farthest cots,
Inspiring vigour, liberty abroad
And scatters plenty with unsparing hand.
Rich is thy soil, and merciful thy clime;
Thy streams unfailing in the summer's drought,
Unmatch'd thy guardian oaks, thy valleys float
With golden waves; and on the mountains
flocks

Bleat numberless; while rove around their sides,

Below, the blackening herds in lusty droves,

Beneath, thy meadows glow, and rise unquell'd

Against the mower's scythe. On every hand
Thy villas shine, thy country teems with wealth,
And property assures it to the swain,
Pleased and unwearied, in his guardian toil.

Fill'd are thy cities with the sons of Art.
And trade and joy, in every busy street,
Mingling are heard; even Drudgery himself,
As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews
The palace stone, looks gay; thy crowded
ports,

Where rising masts an endless prospect yield,
With labour burn, and echo to the shouts
Of hurried sailor, as he hearty waves
His last adieu, and loosening every sheet,
Resigns the spreading vessel to the wind.
Bold, firm, and graceful are thy generous youth,
Scattering the nations where they go, and first
Or on the lifted plain, or stormy seas.
Mild are thy glories too, as o'er the plains
Of thriving peace thy thoughtful fires preside;
In genius and substantial learning high.
For every virtue, every worth renown'd;

Sincere, plain-hearted, hospitable, kind;
Yet, like the mustering thunder when pro-
voked,

The dread of tyrants, and the sole resource
Of those that under grim oppression groan.
Thomson.
BRITAIN (Great)-Invulnerability of.
England is safe, if true within itself.

Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
And with their helps only defend ourselves;
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.
Shakspeare.

BRITAIN (Great)-Power of.

pours

I see thy commerce, Britain, grasp the world:
All nations serve thee, ev'ry foreign flood,
Subjected, pays its tribute to the Thames.
Thither the golden South obedient
His sunny treasures; thither the soft East
Her spices, delicacies, gentle gifts;
And thither his rough trade the stormy North.
See where beyond the vast Atlantic surge,
By boldest keels untouch'd a dreadful space!
Shores yet unfound, arise, in youthful prime,
With towering forests, mighty rivers crown:
These stoop to Britain's thunder. This new
world,

Shook to its centre, trembles at her name;
And there her sons, with aim exalted, sow
The seeds of rising empire, arts, and arms.
Britons, proceed; the subject deep command;
Awe with your navies every hostile land:
Vain are their threats, their armies all are vain;
They rule the balanced world who rule the
main.
Mallet.

Oh, yes! the spirit breaks, but not for love. Love is the dream of early youth, and the spirit breaks not then. Youth has itself the elements of so much happiness; its energy, its hope, its trust, its fond belief that everything is beautiful, that every one is true, and its warm affections, all give a buoyancy, an evermoving principle of joy; and though the spirit bow, it breaks not then. It is in after-years, when stern experience has become our teacher, when the bright glowing hue of hope has passed away, and in its place dark shadows fall; when all life's billows have swept over us, and each succeeding wave has left its furrows on the soul; oh! then it is the spirit breaks, and all man's boasted energy gives way. Sala. BROOK-Picturesque Ruralities of a. Around the adjoining brook, that purls along The vocal grove, now fretting o'er a rock, Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now

Gently diffused into a limpid plain;

A various group the herds and flocks compose;
Rural confusion! on the grassy bank
Some ruminating lie, while others stand
Half in the flood, and often bending sip
The circling surface. In the middle droops
The strong laborious ox, of honest front,
Which incomposed he shakes; and from his
sides

The troublous insects lashes with his tail,
Thomson.
Returning still.
BROTHERHOOD-Need of our common.

The race of mankind would perish, did they cease to aid each other. From the time that the mother binds the child's head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid, have a right to ask it from their fellow-mortals; no one who holds the power of granting, can refuse it without guilt. Sir Walter Scott.

BRUTES-Natural Love in.

Notwithstanding that natural love in brutes is much more violent and intense than in

rational creatures, Providence has taken care that it should be no longer troublesome to the

parent than it is useful to the young; for so

soon as the wants of the latter cease, the mother withdraws her fondness, and leaves them to provide for themselves; and what is a very remarkable circumstance in this part of instinct, we find that the love of the parent may be lengthened out beyond the usual time, if the preservation of the species requires it: as we may see in birds that drive away their young as soon as they are able to get