...Fletcher. BETTING. I've heard old, cunning stagers, Say, fools for arguments use wagers. Butler. BOASTING. We rise in glory as we sink in pride ; Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. Young. BOOKS. Books are men of higher stature, The only men that speak aloud for future times to hear....

...doth defy, With his poor clod of earth the spacious sky. Ifci'bert. BOASTING. BOLDNESS. BONDS. 129 We rise in glory as we sink in pride; Where boasting ends, there digmty begins. Young. BOLDNESS. I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks, Stirred up by heaven, thus...

..."Which makes the smile more mortal to his fame ? His fame which (like the mighty Caesar), crowii'd "With laurels, in full senate, greatly falls, By seeming...: And yet, mistaken beyond all mistake, The blind Lorenzo 's proud — of being proud ; And dreams himself ascending in his fall. An eminence, tho' fancied,...

...Where boasting ends, there dignity begins: And yet, mistaken beyond all mistake, The blind Lorenzo 's proud — of being proud ; And dreams himself ascending in his fall. An eminence, tho' fancied, turns the brain: All vice wants hellebore ; but of all vice, Pride loudest calls, and for...

...selfseeking, the evil eye of envy ? These tempers belong to a fellowship foreign, most hostile to his. " We rise in glory as we sink in pride ; Where boasting ends, there dignity begins." Another trial afflicted the Saviour at this interview. The traitor was there in fancied secrecy, but...

...apostate angel, though in pain, Vaunting aloud, but raek'd with deep despair. Milton's Paradise Lost. We rise in glory, as we sink in pride ; Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. For men (it is reported) dash and vapour Less on the field of battle than on paper. Thus in the hist'ry...

...makes the smile more mortal to his fame ? His fame, which (like the mighty Czesar) crowned 505 With laurels, in full senate greatly falls, By seeming...• " ' * . And yet, mistaken beyond all mistake, 510 The blind Lorenzo's proud — of being proud ; And dreams himself ascending in his fall. An eminence,...

...makes the smile more mortal to his fame ? His fame, which (like the mighty Ca?sar) crowned 505 With laurels, in full senate greatly falls, By seeming...dignity begins : And yet, mistaken beyond all mistake, 510 The blind Lorenzo's proud — of being proud ; And dreams himself ascending in his fall. An eminence,...

...Scott. WITH every change his Features play'd, As Aspens show the Light and Shade. 330 acting. — Young. WE rise in Glory, as we sink in Pride ; Where Boasting ends, there Dignity begins. , — Shakspeare. CONCEIT, more rich in Matter than in Words, Brags of his Substance, not of Ornament...

...Which makes the smile more mortal to his fame 1 His fame which (like the mighty Ciesar) crowned With laurels, in full senate, greatly falls, By seeming...pride; Where boasting ends, there dignity begins; And v<"., mistaken beyond all mistake, The blind Lorenzo's proud—of being proud, And dreams himself ascending,...