FEAR IS STRONGER-FIDELITY'S A VIRTUE. 75 "Fear is stronger than death, and love is more prevalent than fear, and kindness is the greatest endearment of love.' JEREMY TAYLOR. The Miracles of Divine Mercy, Pt. III. "Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns." SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. III. (Gloster), Act IV., Sc. VII. 'Feelingly sweet is stillness after storm, Though under cover of the wormy ground." "Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them." WM. MORRIS. A Dream of John Ball. "Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable." SWIFT. Thoughts on Various Subjects. "Few love to hear the sins they love to act." SHAKESPEARE. Pericles (Pericles), Act I., Sc. I. "Few men have grown unto greatness whose names are allied to ridicule, And many would never have been profligate, but for the splendour of a name." M. TUPPER. Proverbial Philosophy. Of Indirect Influences, line 103. (It has been a common observation, that) few men have sequester'd themselves from the world, but such as were no longer fit to live in it." HUGHES. The Lay Monastery, No. 3. Fickle is the ground whereon all tyrants tread, A thousand sundry cares and fears do haunt their restless head." "Fickle man is apt to rove." BURNS. Let not Women e'er Complain. "Fiction may deck the truth with spurious rays, And round the hero cast a borrow'd blaze.' " ADDISON. The Campaign. "Fidelity's a virtue that ennobles E'en servitude itself." MASON. Elfrida (Chorus). 76 FE, FO, AND FUM-FIRM AS MAN'S SENSE. "Fe, fo, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man." SHAKESPEARE. King Lear (Edgar), Act III., Sc. IV. This is probably taken from an old Scotch Ballad, which is given by Jamieson, in "Illustrations of Northern Antiquities : "With fi, fi, fo, and fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man! "Fight fire with fire, and craft with craft." LONGFELLOW. "Final ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation." The Cobbler of Hagenau. YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night IX., line 167. "Stern ruin's ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom." BURNS. To a Mountain Daisy. "Find me one man of sense in all your roll, Whom some one woman has not made a fool." DUKE. Prologue to Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus. "(And this our life, exempt from public haunt,) Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It (Duke), Act II., Sc. I. "Fine as ice-ferns on January panes Made by a breath." "Fine by degrees, and beautifully less." TENNYSON. Aylmer's Field. PRIOR. Henry and Emma, line 430. "Fine feathers make fine birds." BUNYAN. Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. I. "Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds." "Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves, "Fire and people doe in this agree, OTWAY. LORD BROOKE. Inquisition upon Fame. "Fire, that is closest kept, burns most of all." SHAKESPEARE. Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta), "(Thy heart above all envy and all pride,) HAMMOND. Love Elegies, XIV. FIRST CASE YOUR HARE-FOOL'S PARADISE. 'First case your hare, then cook it." MRS. GLASSE. Cookery Book. "First come, first seruyd." H. BRINKLOW. The Complaynt of Roderyck Mors, Ch. XVII. "Flatterers looke like friends, as wolves, like dogges." G. CHAPMAN. Byron's Conspiracie, Act III., Sc. I. FORD. The Lover's Melancholy (Amethus), Act I., Sc. I. Flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flatter'd but a spark, To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing." SHAKESPEARE. Pericles (Helicanus), Act I., Sc. II. "Flattery's the nurse of crimes." GAY. Fables, I. Fly where the culprit may, guilt meets a doom.". "Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee; 46 J. HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI. Folly ends when genuine hope begins." "Folly in youth is sin, in age 'tis madness." S. DANIEL. The Tragedy of Cleopatra (Cæsar), Act III., Sc. II. "Folly may pass, nor tarnish youth, But falsehood leaves a poison stain." ELIZA COOK. Stanzas to the Young. "Fond lovers' parting is sweet painful pleasure." BURNS. Gloomy December. "Food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better." SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act IV., Sc. II. "Fools are made for jests to men of sense." FARQUHAR. The Beaux Stratagem, Prologue. "(You'll find at last this maxim true,) Fools are the game which knaves pursue." "Fools hate knowledge." GAY. Fables, Pt. II., XII. PROVERBS. Ch. I., ver. 22. "Fools out of favour grudge at knaves in place, And men are always honest in disgrace." DEFOE. The True-Born Englishman. Introduction, line 7. "(A) fools P'aradise.” MIDDLETON. The Family of Love (Mistress Glister), "Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools." 77 MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. III., line 490. 78 FOOLS RUSH IN-FOR ONE TYRANT. "Thy fairest prospects, rightly viewed, BLACKLOCK. Ode on the Refinements in Meta- "The fools we know have their own paradise, The wicked also have their proper Hell." "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." POPE. Essay on Criticism, Pt. III., line 625. "(And) fools who came to scoff, remained to pray." GOLDSMITH. The Deserted Village, line 180. Vide-" Preventing angels." "Fools will prate o' right and wrang, While knaves laugh them to scorn.' "For a king BURNS. The Five Carlines. 'Tis sometimes better to be fear'd than loved.” BYRON. Sardanapalus (Myrrha), Act I., Sc. III. "For a tear is an intellectual thing, BLAKE. The Grey Monk. And a sigh is the sword of an angel king; And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow." "For all our works a recompence is sure: 'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t' endure." HERRICK. Hesperides, 851. For ever and a day." MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 297. SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It (Orlando), Act IV., Sc. I. "For ever in man's bosom will man's pride An equal empire with his love divide." "For everything created L. E. L. The Golden Violet, The Rose. "For one tyrant, there are a thousand ready slaves." W. HAZLITT. Political Essays. On the connexion between FOR SOMERSET-Fortune is cHAUNGEABLE. "For Somerset, off with his guilty head!" SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. III. (King Edward), Act V., "Off with his head-so much for Buckingham!" COLLEY CIBBER. Version of Richard III., Act IV., Sc. III. "For sluggard's brow the laurel never grows; Renown is not the child of indolent repose.' THOMSON. The Castle of Indolence, Can. II., St. 1. "For that deep torture may be called an Hell, Where more is felt, than one hath power to tell." BURTON. Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. I., Sec. IV., Mem. III. "For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds." ARMSTRONG. Art of Preserving Health, Bk. III., line 515. "For when the soul is nuzzled once in vice, The sweet of sin makes Hell a Paradise.' DRAYTON. The Legend of Pierce Gaveston. "Forbidden wares sell twice as dear." DENHAM. Natura Naturala, VI. "Force first made conquest, and that conquest, law; POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line 245. Is the most pleasing virtue they can have, That do spring up from nothing." 79 MIDDLETON. The Mayor of Queenborough (Horsus), Act III., Sc. I. "Forgive! How many will say, 'forgive,' and find A sort of absolution in the sound TENNYSON. Sea Dreams. '(My honest zeal if not my verse commend ;) Forgive the poet, and approve the friend." SMITH. To the memory of Mr. J. Phillips. "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd." SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline (Pisanio), Act IV., Sc. III. "Fortune hath in her honey galle." CHAUCER. The Monke's Tale, line 557. "Fortune is chaungeable." CHAUCER. The Knighte's Tale, line 384. |