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.. 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; Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 2 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, 1554 Addison: Cato. Act iv. Sc 4. FAME-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; 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 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Cowley: Motto. Milton: Samson Agonistes. Line 971. To scorn delights and live laborious days; Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 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 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; 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 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 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. 1579 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. 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 Joaquin Miller: Ina. Sc. 4. Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. 1586 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 1588 Longfellow: Psalm of Life. A lady with her daughters or her nieces, 1590 FANCY Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 60 - see Imagination. Tell me, where is fancy bred; Or in the heart, or in the head? 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 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, 1592 Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, 1593 James Russell Lowell: Sonnet xxxiv. Ed. 1844. Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 1594 Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 118. 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 |