BATHING. BATHING. Suspended thus Upon the bosom of a cooler world. BATTLE-Flight from. BEASTS. BATTLE-Struggles of. All furnish'd, all in arms, Hurdis. All plumed like estridges, that wing the wind; Baited like eagles having lately bathed! Now my fierce courser with a javelin stung, And now a thousand deaths from every side Had but one mark, and on my buckler rung; Through the throng legions, like a tempest, rush'd This friend, o'er gasping heroes, rolling steeds, And snatch'd me from my fate. Young. BATTLE-FIELD-The. And silence was upon that fatal field, That her long weary search was not in vain, And she had found the bosom, stiff and cold, Where her soft clustering curls had often lain. 'Twas one of these that burst upon my ear While watching on that field: the windharp's tone Was not more mournful nor more sweetly clear, Than was the sound of that sad woman's moan. Through the dim twilight I beheld a form, Her dark brow clouded with griefs passionate storm, And on her breast an infant calmly slept, Which she would pause to gaze on; and again, With bitterness renew'd, she loudly wept, And call'd on its dead father-but in vain ! Hon. Mrs. Norton. BATTLE-FIELD-after a Lapse of Time. Then after length of time, the labouring swains, Shakspeare. Dryden. BEASTS-Creation of. God said When Greeks join'd Greeks, then was the tug "Let the earth bring forth soul living in her of war. kind, The labour'd battle sweat and conquest bled. Lee. Cattle, and creeping things, and beast of the earth. Each in their kind." The earth obey'd, and BEAUTY-Allurements of. rose, As plants ambiguous between sea and land, The river-horse, and scaly crocodile. Milton. BEASTS-Provisions for. Nature to these, without profusion kind, BEAUTIFUL-Belief in the. Pope. There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow, within the experience of our fellow-creatures, which we have not tasted; yet the belief in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richDess in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success. Leigh Hunt. BEAUTY-Allurements of. Nought under heaven so strongly doth allure, The sence of man and all his minde possese, As beautie's lovely baite that doth procure Great warriours oft their rigour to represse, | And mighty hands to forget their manliness, Drawne with the powre of an heart-robbing eye, And wrapt in fetters of a golden tresse, That can with melting pleasaunce mollifye Their harden'd hearts enured to bloud and cruelty. Spenser. For of the soul the body form doth take; BEAUTY-Celestiality of. A lavish planet reign'd when she was born, And made ber of such kindred mould to heav'n, She seems more heav'n than ours. Dryden. BEAUTY-Charms of. Array'd in all her charms, appear'd the fair; Tall was her stature, unconfined her air; Proportion deck'd her limbs, and in her face Lay love enshrined, lay sweet attractive grace, Temp'ring the awful beams her eyes convey'd, And, like a lambent flame, around her play'd. No foreign aids by ladies mortal worn, From shells and rocks her artless charms adorn; For, grant that beauty were bygems increased, 'Tis rendered more suspected at the least, And foul defects, that would escape the sight, Start from the piece, and take a stronger light Her chestnut hair, in careless ringlets, round Her temples wav'd, with pinks and jasmine crown'd, And gather'd in a silken cord behind, BEAUTY-of the Divine Creator. Oh, if so much of beauty doth reveal Tegner. No monstrous height, nor breadth, nor length Of Death will grasp the sweetest flowers on appear; The whole at once is bold and regular. BEAUTY-Dangers of. Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husbaud. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice. The graces lose not their influence like beauty. At the end of thirty years, a virtuous woman, who makes an agreeable companion, charms her husband more than at first. The comparison of love to fire holds good in one respect, that the fiercer it burns the sooner it is extinguished. Lord Kaimes. Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; BEAUTY-Dignity of. What tender force, what dignity divine, BEAUTY-Divinity of. Young. What's female beauty, but an air divine, shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; can bear; earth, Others become their likeness: and when sounds BEAUTY-dependent on the Face. Beauty depends more upon the movement of the face than upon the form of the features when at rest. Thus a countenance habitually under the influence of amiable feelings acquires a beauty of the highest order, from the frequency with which such feelings are the originating causes of the movement or expressions which stamp their character upon it. Mrs. S. C. Hall. Are not all natural things, it may be asked, as lovely near as far away? Nay; not so. Look at the clouds, and watch the delicate sculpture of their alabaster sides, and the rounded lustre of their magnificent rolling. They were meant to be beheld far away; they were shaped for their place, high above your head; approach them, and they fuse into vague mists, or whirl away in fierce fragments of thunderous vapour. Look at the crest of the Alp, from the faraway plains over which its light is cast, whence human souls have communion with it by myriads. The child looks up to it in the dawn, and the husbandman in the burden and heat of the day, and the old man in the going down of the sun; and it is to them all as the celestial city on the world's horizon, dyed with the depth of heaven, and clothed with the calm of eternity. There was it set, for Keats. holy dominion, by Him who marked for the Some, none resist, though not exceeding fair. BEAUTY-Eternity of. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. sun his journey, and bade the moon know her BEAUTY-without Kindness. going down. It was built for its place in the far-off sky; approach it, and as the sound of the voice of man dies away about its foundation, and the tide of human life, shallowed upon the vast I aërial shore, is at last met by the eternal "Here shall thy waves be stayed," the glory of its aspect fades into blanched fearfulness; its purple walls are rent into grisly rocks; its silver fretwork saddened into wasting snow; the storm-brands of ages are on its breast, the ashes of its own ruin lie solemnly on its white raiment. Ruskin. BEAUTY-Frailty of. Not faster in the summer's ray Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting. Johnson. BEAUTY-Knowledge of. BEAUTY-upheld by Love. A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms; if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the faces of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later, an after-summer, the Some beauty's snatch'd each day, each hour; reflex of their most beautiful bloom. Richter. For beauty is a fleeting flower; In beauty's momentary pride ? Elphinston. To fill our minds we require the ideal over and above the actual; and the mere fact that a certain thing is the actual business of life, divests it at once of the beauty and sublimity after which we long. Poetry is purely spiritual, I have come to the conclusion, if man, or woman either, wishes to realize the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble hopes and purposes; by having something to do, and something to live for, which is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding the capacities of the soul, gives expansion and symmetry to the body which contains it. Professor Upham. BEAUTY-the first in Might. and the moment we blend with it any mercantile association its essence is gone. I do not believe that any poet writes with the same pure and free inspiration as at first, from the bour when he begins to sell his works. I be- That first in beauty should be first in might. heve that a painter or sculptor will work more BEAUTY-with Kindness. Ougan. Shakspeare, 'Tis the eternal law, BEAUTY. BEAUTY-Pervading Presence of. Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring: it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those men who are alive to it, cannot lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side. Now this beauty is so precious, the enjoyments it gives are so refined and pure, so congenial with our tenderest and noblest feelings, and so akin to worship, that it is painful to think of the multitude of men as living in the midst of it, and living almost as blind to it as if, instead of this fair earth and glorious sky, they were tenants of a dungeon. An infinite joy is lost to the world by the want of culture of this spiritual endowment. The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul, when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire. Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice: Careades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that 'twas a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid calls it a favour bestowed by the gods. Remember, if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. Raleigh. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A brittle glass that's broken presently; We were charm'd, Not awe-struck; for the beautiful was there Triumphant. Talfourd. BEAUTY-Undesirable. Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtues shine and vice blush. Bacon. BEAUTY-of the Universe. We all of us, in a great measure, create our own happiness, which is not half so much dependent upon scenes and circumstances as most people are apt to imagine. And so it is with beauty: Nature does little more than furnish us with materials of both, leaving us to work them out for ourselves. Stars, and flowers, and hills, and woods, and streams |