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There's no art

FACE- see Beauty, Eyes.

To find the mind's construction in the face.

1526

Shakes.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4

Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
Examine every several lineament,

And what obscur'd in this fair volume iies,
Find written in the margin of his eyes.

1527

Shaks. Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc 3 If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. 1528 Pope: R. of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 17 Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face. 1529

Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 113.

His face was of that doubtful kind, That wins the eye but not the mind. 1530

Scott: Rokeby. Canto v. St. 16.

Unknit that threat'ning unkind brow,

It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.

1531

Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 1532

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in it: tho' thy tackle's torn,
Thou showest a noble vessel.

1533

Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.

Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men
May read strange matters.

1534

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5

Her face betokened all things dear and good,
The light of somewhat yet to come was there
Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,

1535

When childish thoughts, like flowers, would drift away. Jean Ingelow: Margaret in the Xebec. St. 57 A cheek, whose bloom

Was as a mockery of the tomb,

Whose tints as gently sunk away
As a departing rainbow's ray.

1536

Byron: Pris. of Chillon. St. 8

The light upon her face

Shines from the windows of another world.

Saints only have such faces.

1537

Longfellow: Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 6

Faces! - O my God,

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We call those, faces? men's and women's . . . ay,
And children's; babies, hanging like a rag
Forgotten on their mother's neck-

poor mouths,
Wiped clean of mother's milk by mother's blow,
Before they are taught her cursing. Faces?
We'll call them vices festering to despairs,
Or sorrows petrifying to vices: not

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A finger-touch of God left whole on them;
All ruined, lost the countenance worn out
As the garments, the will dissolute ås the act,
The passions loose and draggling in the dirt
To trip the foot up at the first free step!

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1538 Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh. Bk. iv. Line 593 FAIRIES.

This is the fairy land;

spite of spites,

We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites.

1539

Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2 Faery elves,

Whose midnight revels by a forest-side,

Or fountain, some belated peasant sees,

Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon

Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth

Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund music charm his ear;

At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.

1540

FAITH

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 781

- see Confidence, Religion.

If faith produce no works, I see
That faith is not a living tree.

Thus faith and works together grow,
No separate life they e'er can know:
They're soul and body, hand and heart;
What God hath join'd, let no man part.
1541

Hannah More: Dan and Jane

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

Cowley: On Crashan

1542 For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 1543

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 305 The great world's altar-stairs, That slope thro' darkness up to God.

1544

Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. liv. St. 4

Whose faith has centre everywhere,
Nor cares to fix itself to form.

1545

Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. xxxiii. St. 1

Set on your foot;

And, with a heart new fir'd, I follow you,
To do I know not what: but it sufficeth,
That Brutus leads me on.

1546

Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act ii Sc..

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, To break the shock blind nature cannot shun. 1547

Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 721 Faith is the subtle chain

That binds us to the Infinite: the voice

Of a deep life within.

1548

Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Faith

Bailey: Festus. Proem. Line 84.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

1549

FAITHFULNESS.

He's true to God who's true to man.

1550 Jas. Russell Lowell: On Capt. of Fugitive Slaves. St. 7

FALL.

Some falls are means the happier to arise.

Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2.

1551 FALSITY. -see Deceit, Hypocrisy, Lies.

As false

As air, as water, as wind, as sandy earth;
As fox to lamb; as wolf to heifer's calf;
Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son.
1552

Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 2
Had she been true,

If Heaven would make me such another world
Of one entire and perfect chrysolite,

I'd not have sold her for it.

1553

Shaks.: Othello. Act v. Sc. 2

Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil,
The product of all climes.

1554

FAME

Addison: Cato. Act iv. Sc 4

see Glory, Honor, Reputation.

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs.

1555

Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1

Then shall our names

Familiar in his mouth as household words,

Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.

1556

Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

1557

Shaks.: Titus A. Act i. Sc. 2

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
1558
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.

Shaks.: Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1.

1559

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2

Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. 1560 Better to leave undone, than by our deed Acquire too high a fame, when him we serve's away. 1561 Shaks. Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 1. What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? 1562 Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds: On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight. 1563 Milton: Samson Agonistes. Line 971. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind)

Cowley: Motto.

To scorn delights and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

1564

Milton: Lycidas. Line 70

There is a tall long-sided dame, -
But wondrous light-ycleped Fame,
That like a thin chameleon boards
Herself on air, and eats her words;
Upon her shoulders wings she wears

Like hanging sleeves, lin'd thro' with ears,
And eyes, and tongues, as poets list,
Made good by deep mythologist.

With these she through the welkin flies,
And sometimes carries truth, oft lies.

1565

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ìí. Canto i. Line 45

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind;
Or, ravished with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!
1566

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 281
What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath,
A thing beyond us, even before our death.
1567

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 237

As yet a child, nor yet a 100. to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. 1568 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 127 Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call: She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all. 1569

Pope: Temple of Fame. Line 513

Men the most infamous are fond of fame;
And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.
1570
Fame is a public mistress, none enjoys,
But, more or less, his rival's peace destroys.
1571
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows;
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
1572

Churchill: The Author. Line 233

Young: Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 25

Young: Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 27
For what is fame

But the benignant strength of One, transformed
To joy of Many?

1573

George Eliot: Armgart. Sc. 1.

There was a morning when I longed for fame,
There was a noontide when I passed it by,
There is an evening when I think not shame
Its substance and its being to deny;

For if men bear in mind great deeds, the name
Of him that wrought them shall they leave to die;
Or if his name they shall have deathless writ,
They change the deeds that first ennobled it.

1574

Jean Ingelow: The Star's Monument. St. 81 He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

1575

Dr. Johnson: Van. of Hum. Wishes. Line 221. The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain..

Blair: Grave. Line 185

1576
Sepulchral columns wrestle, but in vain,
With all-subduing time; his cankering hand
With calm, deliberate malice wasteth them:
Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes,
The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble,
Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge.
1577

Blair: Grave. Line 200

Beattie: Minstrel. Bk. i. St.

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

1578

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