bare imagination of a feast? or* wallow naked in December snow,...by2 thinking on fantastic summer's heat*? O no2! the apprehension of the good,...gives but the greater feeling to the worse; fell Sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more*, than when it bites, but2 lanceth not2 the sore2.-Sh.

For who would2 bear the whips and scorns of time2,...the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,...the pangs of despised love, the law's delay,...the insolence of office, and the spurns...that patient merit of the unworthy takes,... when he himself might2 his* quietus make...with a bare bodkin? Who would2 fardels bear,...to grunt and sweat under a weary life;...but2 that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country, from whose bourn2...no2 traveller returns,-puzzles the will; and makes us rather bear those ills we have,... than fly to others that we know2 not2 of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all2, and thus the native hues of resolution...is sicklied o'er3 with the pale2 cast2 of thought; and* enterprizes of great2 pith and moment, ...with this regard, their currents2 turn awry,...and lose the name of action.—Hamlet, Sh.

O'er3 the glad waters of the dark blue2 sea2,...our2 thoughts as* boundless, and our2 souls2 as* free,...far as the surge2 can2 bear, the billows foam,...survey our empire, and* behold our2 home.-Byron.

15.-BERRY, BURY.

The gooseberry, strawberry and raspberry, are extensively grown in2 English gardens. Bilberries, cranberries and wortleberries, are wild fruits, and make excellent tarts.

Thy palate then did deign2...the roughest berry on the rudest hedge*.-Sh.

O ruddier than the cherry; O sweeter than the berry; O nymph more* bright than moonshine night2, like kidlings blithe and merry.-Gay.

I come to bury Cæsar, not2 to praise him2. The* evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their2 bones.Sh.

We buried him2 darkly, at dead of night2, the sods with our2 bayonets turning,...by2 the struggling moon-beam's misty light, and the lantern dimly burning.- Wolfe.

And Abraham stood up from before his* dead, and spake unto the sons2 of Heth, saying, 12 am a stranger and a sojourner with you3; give me a possession of a burying-place with you3, that 12 may bury my dead out of my sight3.—B.

16.-BRAKE, BREAK.

See from the brake the whizzing pheasant springs, and mounts exulting on triumphant wings.—Pope.

Break his bands of sleep asunder,...and rouse him2 like a rattling peal of thunder.-Dryden.

17.-BOWL, BOLE.

Fill the bowl with rosy wine*,...around our2 temples roses twine,...and let us cheerfully awhile...like the wine* and roses smile.-Cowley.

To cure the mind's wrong bias, spleen,...some2 recommend the bowling-green ;...some2, hilly walks, all2 exercise. Fling but a stone, the giant dies2.-Matt. Green.

How vast her bole, how wide her arms are spread.Dryden.

18-BRUISE, BREWS.

He made me mad...to see him2 shine so3 brisk, and smell so sweet,...and talk so like a waiting gentlewoman... of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God save the mark2!) and telling me the sovereignest thing on earth...was spermaceti for an inward bruise; and that it was great2 pity, so3 it was,... this villainous saltpetre should be2 dug...out of the bowels of the harmless earth,...which* many a good tall fellow had* destroyed...so3 cowardly; and but2 for these vile guns,...he would himself have been2 a soldier.-Sh.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed2 and her seed2; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his* heel2.-B.

The landlord of the Dragon brews good ale2.

Launce. Here is the catalogue of her conditions.— Imprimis, she can fetch and carry; item, she can2 milk; item, she brews good ale2; item, she can sew3; item, she can wash and scour; item, she can spin; item, she hath many nameless virtues. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Sh.

19.—BY, BUY, BYE.

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and brutes, by nature.

Bassanio: If it please2 you3 to dine with us. Shylock: Yes, to smell pork; to eat* of the habitation which* your* prophet2, the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you3, sell2 with you3, talk with you3, walk with you3, and so following; but I will not2 eat* with you3, drink with you3, nor* pray2 with you.3-Merchant of Venice, Sh.

And by-and-by the people, when they met...in twos and threes, or* fuller companies,...began to scoff and jeer and babble of him2,...as* of a prince whose manhood was all gone,...and molten down in mere uxoriousness.—Tennyson.

Good-bye means farewell. traction of God be with you3.

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20.-BIRTH, BERTH.

Would2 God renew me from my birth...I'd almost live my life again.-Tennyson.

And the waves2 oozing through the port2-hole2 made2... his berth a little damp, and him2 afraid.-Byron.

O, noble lord*, bethink thee of thy birth; call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment,...and banish hence these abject lowly dreams.-Sh.

21.-BOUGH, BOW.

It is* the hour when from the boughs...the nightingale's

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high note is heard2; it is the hour2 when* lovers' vows... seem2 sweet in every whispered word; and gentle winds and waters near,...make music to the lonely ear*.-Byron

Lord! bow thine ear* to our2 prayer! Zion spreadeth her hands for aid, and there2 is* neither help nor* comfort.Oratorio of Elijah.

22.-BLUE, BLEW.

All2 day2 within the dreamy house,...the doors upon their2 hinges creaked; the blue fly sung in the pane2.-Tennyson.

Afraid, not2 without reason, for the wind...increased at night2, until it blew a gale; and though 'twas not2 much to a naval mind,...some landsmen would have looked a little pale2,... for sailors are, in fact, a different kind; at sunset they began to take in sail2,...for the sky showed it would2 come on to blow,...and carry away, perhaps, a mast or* so3.-Byron.

23.-BLANCH, BLANCHE.

If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, where* should he find it fairer than in Blanch? if zealous love should go in search of virtue, where* should he find it purer than in Blanch? if love ambitious sought a match of* birth2, whose veins2 bound richer blood than Lady Blanch?-King John, Sh.

To blanch almonds. Put them into cold water, and heat* them slowly to scalding, &c.-Cookery Book.

The name Blanche is* now more frequently spelled in the French manner, with an e at the* end.

24.-BAWL, BALL.

The dogs did bark, the children screamed, up flew2 the windows all2; and every soul2 cried out "Well done!" as loud as he could bawl.-Cowper.

Let others seek for empty joys at ball or concert, rout or play; whilst far from fashion's idle noise, her gilded domes and trappings gay,...I wile* the wintry eve away; 'twixt book and lute the hours2 divide,...and marvel how I e'er could stray...from thee my own* fireside.—A. A. Watts.

And like a ball the russet-bearded head rolled on the floor. -Tennyson.

26.—CALENDER, CALENDAR.

Now Gilpin had* a pleasant wit*, and loved a timely joke; and thus unto the Calender in merry guise he spoke: 12 came because your* horse would2 come; and, if I well forebode, my hat and wig* will soon be2 here2, they are upon the road3.Cowper.

The Shepherd's Calendar by Edmund Spenser, is* a pastoral poem in2 twelve eclogues, one2 for each month of* the year.

The twelve calendar or* civil months were so3 arranged by2 Julius Cæsar, while* reforming the Calendar, that the* odd months the first, third, fifth, and so3 on, should contain thirty-one days, and the* even numbers thirty days, except in2 the case of February.

25.-BRIGHTON, BRIGHTEN.

There2 are moments in life that we never forget, which* brighten and brighten, as* time steals away; they give a new2 charm to the happiest lot, and they shine on the gloom of the loneliest day. These moments are hallowed by2 smiles and by2 tears2; the first look of love, and the last parting given; as the sun2, in the dawn of his* glory, appears,...and the cloud weeps and glows with the rainbow in2 heaven.Percival.

Brighton, on the coast of Sussex, which* little less than a century* ago was a little fishing village, is now a large and splendid town, owing to court patronage and fashion having directed the attention of the titled and wealthy to it. At the census of 1861 its population was 87,317.

27.—CANON, CANNON.

The Canon Law is, properly speaking, the ecclesiastical law of the Roman Catholic Church. In its more* limited acceptation, it may be called the By2-laws of the church as* a separate corporation, but its field widened with the influence