The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat.
And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time.
Like the watermen who advance forward
while they look backward.
Montaigne—Bk. II. Ch. XXLX. Of Profit
and Honesty.
| seealso = (See also Burton)
| topic = Boating
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 4
| text = <poem>Faintly as tolls the evening chime,
Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,
Soon as the woods on shore look dim,
We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn;
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near and the daylight's past!
Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark
On the bosom of Father Thames,
And before her bows the wavelets dark
Break into a thousand gems.
Thos. Noel—A Thames Voyage.
like watermen who look astern while they row
the boat ahead.
Plutarch—Whether 'twas rightfully said, Live
concealed.
| seealso = (See also Burton)
| topic = Boating
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 7
| text = <poem>Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
The oars were silver:
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 199.
BOBOLINK
Modest and shy as a nun is she;
One weak chirp is her only note;
Braggarts and prince of braggarts is he,
Pouring boasts from his little throat.
Bryant—Robert of Lincoln.
Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, " ^
Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;
White are his shoulders and white his crest.
Bryant—Robert of Lincoln.
One day in the bluest of summer weather,
Sketching under a whispering oak,
I heard five bobolinks laughing together,
Over some ornithological joke.
C. P. Chanch—Bird Language.
When Nature had made all her birds,
With no more cares to think on,
She gave a rippling laugh and out
There flew a Bobolinkon.
C- P. Chanch—The Bobolinks.
The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate,
Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight.
O. W. Holmes—Spring
Out of the fragrant heart of bloom,
The bobolinks are singing;
Out of the fragrant heart of bloom
The apple-tree whispers to the room,
"Why art thou but a nest of gloom
While the bobolinks are singing?"
W. D. Howells—The Bobolinks are Singing.
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BOOKS
(See also Authorship, Printing, Publishing, Reading)
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 15
| text = Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
| author = Addison
| work = Spectator. No. 166.
| topic = Books
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
| author = Alcott
| work = Table Talk.
| place = Bk. I. Learning-Books.
| topic = Books
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Homo unius libri.
A man of one book.
Thomas Aquinas.
| seealso = (See also D'Israeli, Southey, Taylor)
| topic = Books
| page = 75
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books.
| author = Richard Aungervyle
| cog = (Richard De Bury)
| work = Philobiblon.
| place = Ch. I.
| topic = Books
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
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| text = You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.
| author = Richard Aungervyle
| cog = (Richard De Bury)
| work = Philobiblon.
| place = Ch. XV.
| topic = Books
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
| author = Bacon
| work = Advancement of Learning.
| place = Bk. I. Advantages of Learning.
| topic = Books
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 21
| text = Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
| author = Bacon
| work = Essay. Of Studies.
| seealso = (See also Fuller)
| topic = Books
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 22
| text = Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
| author = Bacon
| work = Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
| topic = Books
| page = 75
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 23
| text = <poem>Worthy books
Are not companions—they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
