FANCY. Tell me, where is fancy bred, SONG, Merchant of Venice, act 3, sc. 2. In maiden meditation, fancy free. SHAKSPERE, Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc. 2. O thou, whom, borne on fancy's eager wing. COWPER'S Triconium. And now on fancy's easy wing convey❜d. As through the falling glooms. Pensive I stray, or with the rising dawn FAR. Far in the windings of a vale, The safe retreat of health and peace, MALLET, Edwin and Emma. FAREWELL. Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! SHAKSPERE, Othello, act 3, sc. 3: FAST. Fast bind, fast find. CHURCHILL, The Ghost, bk. 4. Fast bind, fast find; A proverb never stale in thrifty mind, SHAKSPERE, Merchant of Venice, act 2, sc. 5. FAT. Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits FATHER OF LIGHT. Father of light and life! thou God Supreme! THOMSON, Winter. FAULTS OF OURSELVES AND OTHERS. Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbours' faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. KNIGHT'S Shakspere, Coriolanus, act 2, sc. 1, in notis. Other men's sins we ever bear in mind; None sees the fardel of his faults behind. O, that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. SHAKSPERE, Coriolanus, supra, O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us, It wad frae monie a blunder free us BURNS, To a Louse. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ST. LUKE, c. 6, v. 41. For wherefore, while you carelessly pass by FEARFULLY WISE. Fearfully wise, he shakes his empty head, FILL THE BOWL. Fill the bowl with Rosy wine. A GLEE, Cowley's Epicure, 8. FINE. Fine by degrees and beautifully less. Fine by defect, and delicately weak. POPE, Moral Essays, Epi. 2, line 43. Fine words, I wonder where you stole 'em. FIRE. Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. POPE'S Prologue to Satires. FOOD. Food for powder, food for powder. SHAKSPERE, King Henry 4th, pt. 1, act 4, sc. 2. Even in its treasures he could find, Food for the fever of his mind. SCOTT, Lady of the Lake, canto 3, stanza 6. FOOL. A fool, a fool! I met a fool i'the forest, A motley fool; a miserable world: As I do live by food, I met a fool: Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady fortune in good terms, In good set terms. SHAKSPERE, As you like it, act 2, sc. 7. FOOLS RUSH IN. Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead, For fools rush in, where Angels fear to tread. POPE on Criticism, line 624. FOR MODES OF FAITH. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. Por, Essay on Man, Epi. 3, line 305. I Shame on that narrow mind so often known, SAVAGE, Character of Mr. Foster, line 49. FOR THIS, &c, For this relief, much thanks. SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 1, sc. 1. FORC'D, &c. Forc'd from their homes a melancholy train, FORTUNE. Fortune favours the bold. YONGE'S Cicero, De finibus, bk. 3, div. 4. A better fortune will be following a lamentable beginning. RILEY'S Ovid's Met. p. 249. Fortune in men has some small difference made, FOUGHT. Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain, And thrice he routed all his foes, And thrice he slew the slain. DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast, song 14, v. 4. |