O unexpected stroke, worse than of death! That must be mortal to us both? 1476 I depart, Milton Par. Lost. Bk. xi. Line 268. Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. 1477 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 1. Home, kindred, friends, and country - these Montgomery: Farewell to a Missionary EXPANSION. The small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 364. As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes Pope: Temple of Fame. Line 436. EXPECTATION. How slow This old moon wanes: she lingers my desires, Long withering out a young man's revenue. Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Acti. Sc. 1. "Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. 1482 Byron: Lara. Canto i. St 3 EXPEDITION. Ill fares the bark with trembling wretches charged, While night o'erwhelms the sea, and horror looks The assembled mischiefs that besiege them round? EXPERIENCE. Thomson: Seasons. Winter. Line 1004 He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 1484 Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. Experience is by industry achieved, Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act i. Sc. 3. The injuries that they themselves procure 1486 Shaks.: King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 1487 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 376. Experience, join'd with common sense, 1488 Matthew Green: Spleen. Line 312. To Truth's house there is a single door, Which is Experience. He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own. 1489 Bayard Taylor: Tempt. of Hassan Ben Khaled. St. 3. Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. 1490 EXPRESSION. Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. i. St. 1 There's a language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, 1491 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iv. Sc. 5 But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, 1492 EXTRAVAGANCE. Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 115 Extravagance, the rich man's pitfall. 1493 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Society EXTREMES -see Disease, Excess. Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Cowley: Davideis. Bk. iii. Line 205 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 161 The fate of all extremes is such, Men may be read as well as books, too much. 1496 Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. 1497 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 9 EYES-see Beauty, Face. Pope: Odyssey. Bk. xv. Line 79 Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2 Her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, Shaks.: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5 Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. Shaks.: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5. From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive : 1502 Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3 But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light, 1503 Shaks.: Venus and A. Line 491 If I could write the beauty of your eyes, Those eyes, whose light seem'd rather given Such eyes as may have look'd from heaven, 1505 Moore: Loves of the Angels. Third Angel's Story In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn, 1506 -- T. B. Aldrich: Pythagoras Her eyes, fair eyes, like to the purest lights In whom the shining sunbeams brightly play, 1507 Rob't Greene: From Menaphon. Menaphon's Eclogue On women Nature did bestow two eyes, Like heaven's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, 1508 Robert Greene: From Philomela. Sonnet Nature, foreseeing how men would devise hem, Free surmise may sport and welcome. 1510 Robert Browning: La Saisiaz. Line 274. There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work uş harm. 1511 Phoebe Cary: Doves' Eyes. Thy deep eyes, amid the gloom, Shine like jewels in a shroud. 1512 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv Within her tender eye The heaven of April, with its changing light. 1513 Longfellow: Spirit of Poetry Dear eyes!-do not my heart forsake! Augustine J. H. Duganne: Love's Eyes. Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes), Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise, A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, Which struggled through and chasten'd down the whole. 1515 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 60. Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show. 1516 True eyes Emerson: The Visit. Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise 1517 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto ii. St. 3. Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. i. Canto vi. St. 4. Those dark eyes so dark and so deep! 1518 Eyes that were fountains of thought and song! 1519 Bayard Taylor: Epicedium St. 4. Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. 1520 William Cullen Bryant: Oh! Fairest of the Rural Maids. Eyes that shame the violet, Or the dark drop that on the pansy lies. 1521 William Cullen Bryant: Spring in Town. Soul-deep eyes of darkest night. 1522 Joaquin Miller: Californian. Pt. iv. Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. 1523 Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. xxxii. St. 1. The bright black eye, the melting blue, :6 1524 Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Dilemma. These poor eyes, you called, I ween, Sweetest eyes were ever seen." 1525 Mrs. Browning: Catarina to Camoens |