Set on your foot; And, with a heart new fir'd, I follow you, 1546 Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, To break the shock blind nature cannot shun. 1547 Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 721. That binds us to the Infinite: the voice 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; 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, 1553 Shaks.: Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil, 1554 Addison: Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4. FAME-see Glory, Honor, Reputation. Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 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; 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; 1561 Cowley: Motto. Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, 1563 Milton: Samson Agonistes. Line 971. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; 1564 Milton: Lycidas. Line 70. There is a tall long-sided dame, Like hanging sleeves, lin'd thro' with ears, With these she through the welkin flies, 1565 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 45. If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 281. Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 237. As yet a child, nor yet a fool 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; Churchill: The Author. Line 233. Young: Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 25. With fame, in just proportion, envy grows; The man that makes a character, makes foes. 1572 Young: Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 27. But the benignant strength of One, transformed 1573 George Eliot: Armgart. Sc. 1. There was a morning when I longed for fame, For if men bear in mind great deeds, the name 1574 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 Blair: Grave. Line 200. Beattie: Minstrel. Bk. i. St. 1. Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb 1578 Fame is the thirst of youth, but I am not I stood and stand alone, remember'd or forgot. Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 112. I awoke one morning and found myself famous. 1580 Byron: From his Life by Moore. Chap. xiv. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. 1581 Byron: Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 3. What is the end of fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper; Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapor; A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. 1582 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 218. 'Tis as a snowball, which derives assistance 1583 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 100. What of them is left, to tell Where they lie, and how they fell? Not a stone on their turf, nor a bone in their graves; 1584 Byron: Siege of Corinth. St. 25. Who grasp'd at earthly fame, Grasp'd wind; nay worse, a serpent grasp'd, that through His hand slid smoothly, and was gone; but left A sting behind which wrought him endless pain. 1585 Pollok: Course of Time. Bk. iii. Line 533. Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. 1586 Joaquin Miller: Ina. Sc. 4. Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds. 1587 Longfellow: Tales of a Wayside Inn. Bell of A. Line 113. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. 1588 - Longfellow: Psalm of Life. FAMILIARITY. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed 1589 FAMILY. Cowper: Friendship. St. 29. A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shine like a guinea and seven-shilling pieces. 1590 FANCY Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 60. see Imagination. Tell me, where is fancy bred; It is engendered in the eyes, With gazing fed: and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. 1591 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. Song. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, 1592 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, 1593 James Russell Lowell: Sonnet xxxiv. Ed. 1844, Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 118. Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 1594 Woe to the youth whom fancy gains, 1595 Scott: Rokeby. Canto i. St. 31. FAREWELL- see Adieu, Haste, Parting. Why, sometime they will know. 1596 Mary Clemmer: Farewell. Farewell! The lonely word that parts Each throbs to each, these sundered hearts, 1597 Mary Clemmer: Farewell. |