Page images
PDF
EPUB

330

FORTUNE is like-frenche SHE SPAKE.

"Fortune is ever variously inclined."

DRAYTON. The Baron's Wars, Bk. II., XXVIII.

"Fortune is like a widow won,

And truckles to the bold alone."

SOMERVILLE.

"Fortune knows

The Fortune Hunter, Can. II.

We scorn her most, when most she offers blows."

SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra (Antony), Act III., Sc. XI. "Fortune, who oft proves

The careless wanderer's friend."

WORDSWORTH.

"Fortune's friend is mishap's foe."

The Excursion, Bk. II.

SIR T. WYATT. The Lover complaineth himself forsaken.

"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that's put to use, more gold begets."

SHAKESPEARE.

"Foul deeds will rise,

Venus and Adonis, 128.

Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.

"Forward, forward let us range,

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." TENNYSON. Locksley Hall.

"Foxes, rejoice! here buried lies your foe."

[ocr errors]

Quoted by BLoomfield. The Farmer's Boy (Autumn), line 332. Inscribed on a stone in the wall of Euston Park, on the memory of a hound.

Frailty, thy name is woman!"

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.

"(A!) fredome is a noble thing! Fredome may man to haiff liking; Fredome all solace to man giffis."

BARBOUR. The Bruce, Bk. I., line 224.

"Freedom, which in no other land will thrive, Freedom, an English subject's sole prerogative."

"Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite so nigh

DRYDEN. Threnodia Augustalis.

[ocr errors]

As benefits forgot:

Though thou the waters warp,

Thy sting is not so sharp

As friend remembered not."

SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It (Song), Act II., Sc. VII.

'(And) Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,

After the scole of Stratford-atte-bowe,

For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe."

CHAUCER. Canterbury Tales, Prologue, line 122.

FRIENDLY COUNSEL-friendship is seldom. 81

"Friendly counsel cuts off many foes."

SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. I. (King Henry), Act III., Sc. I. "Friends are as dangerous as enemies."

DE QUINCEY. Essay on Schlosser's Literary History.

"Friends are not so easily made as kept."

MARQUIS OF HALIFAX. Maxims of State, XII. "Friends are the surest guard for kings, gold in time does wear away, And other precious things do fade, friendship will never decay." R. EDWARDS. Damon and Pithias (Damon).

"Friends meet to part; Love laughs at faith; True foes once met, are join'd till death."

BYRON. The Giaour.

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil, that men do, lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones."

SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cæsar (Antony), Act III., Sc. II.

CAMBRIDGE. The Scribleriad, Bk. I.,

"Friendship can smooth the front of rude despair."

"Friendship is constant in all other things,

Save in the office and affairs of love :

Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;

Let every eye negociate for itself,

And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch,

Against whose charms faith melteth into blood."

line 196.

SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado about Nothing (Claudio),

[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

Friendship is no plant of hasty growth.

Tho' planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil,

The gradual culture of kind intercourse

Must bring it to perfection."

JOANNA BAILLIE. De Montford (Rezen velt), Act III., Sc. II. "Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other." DR. S. JOHNSON. The Rambler, No. 64.

66

GOLDSMITH.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals."
The Good-Natured Man (Honeywood),
Act I., Sc. I.

"Full of this maxim, often heard in trade,

Friendship with none but equals should be made."
CHATTERTON. Fragment, pub. 1803.

"There is a maxim indeed which says

Friendship can only subsist between equals."

T. HOLCROFT.

The School for Arrogance (Count

Villas), Act III., Sc. Ì.

82

FRIENDSHIP IS-FULL MANY A GEM.

"Friendship is the great chain of human society, and intercourse of letters is one of the chiefest links of that chain."

[ocr errors]

J. HOWELL. Familiar Letters, Bk. I., Sc. II., Lett. XVIII.
To Dr. Prichard.

Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul;
Sweetener of life, and solder of society."

"(For) Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity."

BLAIR. The Grave, line 88.

DRYDEN. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. III., line 47.

"Friendship's like musick; two strings tun'd alike, Will both stirre; though only one you strike."

QUARLES. Job Militant, Sec. 7, Med. 7. "Friendship's the privilege Of private men; for wretched greatness knows No blessing so substantial." "Friendship's the wine of life.”

TATE. The Loyal General.

"From decay'd fortunes every flatterer shrinks; Men cease to build where the foundation sinks."

YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 582.

JOHN WEBSTter. The Duchess of Malfi (Antonio),
Act III., Sc. V.

"From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignify'd by the doer's deed."

SHAKESPEARE. All's Well that Ends Well (King),
Act II., Sc. III.

"From Nature doth emotion come, and moods
Of calmness equally are Nature's gift:
This is her glory: these two attributes
Are sister horns that constitute her strength.
Hence Genius, born to thrive by interchange
Of peace and excitation, finds in her
His best and purest friend; from her receives
That energy by which he seeks the truth,
From her that happy stillness of the mind
Which fits him to receive it when unsought."
WORDSWORTH.

"From post to pillar, wife, I have been tost.'

The Prelude, Bk. XIII.

J. HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. II., Ch. II. "Ile tosse you from post to pillar."

MARSTON. What You Will.

"From shaven chins never came better justice Than those ne'er touched by razor."

MIDDLETON. The Old Law (Eugenia), Act V., Sc. I.

"Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flow'r is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

GRAY. Elegy in a Country Churchyard.

FULL MANY "GENIUS," WHICH MEANS.

"Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy."

SHAKESPEARE.

"Full of wise saws and modern instances."

Sonnet, XXXII.

SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It (Jaques), Act II., Sc. VII.

"Full oft we see

Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."

SHAKESPEARE. All's Well that Ends Well (Helene),

"Garments well sav'd, which first were made When tailors, to promote their trade, Against the Picts in arms arose,

And drove them out, or made them clothes.'

[ocr errors]

Act I., Sc. I.

CHURCHILL. The Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1145.

"Gather therefore the roses whilst yet is prime,
For soone comes age that will her pride defloure:
Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time,

Whilest loving thou mayst loved be with equall crime."

SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. II., Can. XII., St. 75. "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old time is still a flying:

And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying."

HERRICK. Hesperides, 208.

"General notions are generally wrong."

LADY M. MONTAGU. Letter to Mr. Wortley Montagu. 28th March, 1710.

"Generous commerce binds

The round of nations in a golden chain."

THOMSON. Seasons, Summer, line 138.

"Genius has somewhat of the infantine:
But of the childish, not a touch nor taint
Except through self-will, which, being foolishness,
Is certain, soon or late, of punishment,
Which Providence avert ! "

R. BROWNING, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.

"Genius, like all heavenly light,
Can blast as well as bless the sight."

L. E. L. Stanzas to the Author of Mont Blanc.

"(Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought, But) Genius must be born; and never can be taught."

DRYDEN. Letter X. To Congreve, on the Double Dealer.

[ocr errors]

83

"(It is the fruit of) Genius,' which means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all."

CARLYLE. Hist. of Frederick the Great, Bk. IV., Ch. III.

REES

UNI

84

GENTLE DULNESS-GIVE SORROW WORDS.

"Gentle dulness ever loves a joke.'

POPE. The Dunciad, Bk. II., line 33.

"Gentlemen whose chariots roll only upon the four aces are apt to have a wheel out of order."

CIBLER AND VANBURGH.

The Provoked Husband, Act II.

"(The rule) get money, still get money, boy;

No matter by what means; money will do
More, boy, than my lord's letter."

BEN JONSON. Every Man in his Humour (Knowell),
Act II., Sc. III.

"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place."

POPE. Imitations of Horace, Bk. I., Ep. I.

"Get thee to a nunnery, go."

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. I.

'Giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel."

SHAKESPEARE. Henry V. (Pistol), Act III. Sc. V.

"Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire."

BURNS. Epistle to L -k.

"Give currency to reason, improve the moral code of society, and the theory of one generation will be the practice of the next.'

T. L. PEACOCK. Melincourt (Mr. Forester), Ch. XXI.

"Give every ma thine ear, but few thy voice:

Take each man s censure, but reserve thy judgment."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Polonius), Act I., Sc. III.

"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;

Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;

Who sows a field, or trains a flower,

Or plants a tree, is more than all."

WHITTIER. Lines for the Agricultural Exhibition at Amesbury.

"Give me that man

That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him

In my heart's core, ay in my heart of hearts."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. II.

"Give me th' avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow;
But, of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh, save me from the candid friend!"

CANNING. New Morality, The Anti-Jacobin.

"Give salves to every sore, but counsell to the minde."

SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. VI., Can. VI., St. 5.

Give sorrow words: the grief, that does not speak,
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break."

SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth (Malcolm), Act IV., Sc. III.

« EelmineJätka »