The pride of man is our reproach.

40 Now see these wretches in disgrace, Stripp'd of their treasures, power, and place; View them abandoned and forlorn, Exposed to just reproach and scorn.

Hence we ascend the Lollard's [Footnote: The name Lollard was used as a term of reproach for the followers of Wyclif.

but we must doubt whether he had much occasion for self-reproach, when we learn that Hesiod, Anacreon, the Latin works of Petrarch, and "a great many other books not commonly known in the Universities," were among his studies.

At first, Johnson only revised these reports; but he became so dexterous in the execution of his task, that he required only to be told the names of the speakers, and the side of the question to be espoused, in order to frame the speeches himself; an artifice not wholly excusable, which afterwards occasioned him some self-reproach, and even at the time pleased him so little, that he did not consent to continue it.

" "Oh, but you might spare me just half-an-hour sometimes," he said in a slight tone of reproach.

"But I do wish you wouldn't reproach me for my undemonstrativeness each time we meet.

" "I know I ought not to reproach you," he hastened to assure her.

" "And it is his money which you spend so freely," she said, in a low, hard voice of reproach.

Are you not the Captain Fernand who betrayed, sold, and murdered his benefactor, Ali?" "Oh," cried the general, "wretch, to reproach me with my shame!

He addressed her with passionate words of reproach as he turned to leave her.

Major Lee, at this heart-rending announcement, rushed from his tent, saw the sergeant's horse led by one of Middleton's dragoons, and began to reproach himself with having been the means of spilling the blood of the faithful and intrepid Champe.

There is no sickness almost but physic provideth a remedy for it; to every sore chirurgery will provide a slave; friendship helps poverty; hope of liberty easeth imprisonment; suit and favour revoke banishment; authority and time wear away reproach: but what physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favour, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience?

In the second place, it is not my wish or my pleasure to speak them; and hence it is that I have this further reproach to bring against you, that you have provoked me to this discourse.

Yet there is no reproach for this conception of the character of Christ.

The sinne it self, the churches malediction, As doone to one of a sequestred lyfe And holly order, the lawes penalty, Being duble forfeture of lyfe and state, Reproach, shame, infamy, all these incur'd Through my inconsiderate rashnes!

Gentle Sir, Lay not a leaden loade of foule reproach Upon so weake a prop; what's done is past recal.

Feare not, I have approoved armour on, Will bide the brunt of popular reproach Or whatsoever.

But in the darkness he did bitterly reproach himself for falling into the rascals' trap so blindly.

When he awoke, the fumes of the liquor had, in a great degree, evaporated, and he recalled, with considerable self-reproach, the promise he had given, and would gladly have recalled it, if it had been possible.

"Oh, don't reproach me!

"Don't talk so!" was all he could exclaim, feeling himself not wholly innocent of reproach.

Vulgarity to such men is a worse reproach than hardness of heart or indifferent morality.

In a noble Madonna by Vandyck (Bridgewater Gal.), it is she herself who devotes him to do his Father's will; and I still remember a picture of this class, by Carlo Cignani (Belvedere Gal., Vienna), which made me start, with the intense expression: the Mother presses to her the Child, who holds a cross in his baby hand; she looks up to heaven with an appealing look of love and anguish,almost of reproach.

As he fell, apparently lifeless, to the ground, the messengers began to reproach themselves: "Oh! why did we tell him so suddenly?