FACE. That same face of yours looks like the title-page to a whole volume of roguery.

COLLEY CIBBER.-She Would and She Would
Not, Act III.

To his eye

There was but one beloved face on earth,

And that was shining on him.

BYRON.-The Dream, Sect. II.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

CHARLES LAMB. From one of his Letters.

FAIL. His failings lean'd to virtue's side.

GOLDSMITH.-Deserted Village, Line 164.

Mac.-If we should fail-
Lady.-

We fail!

But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7.

FAINT.-Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

KING.-Orpheus and Eurydice, Line 134.

And let us mind faint heart ne'er wan

So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons,
Come all to help him, and stop the air

By which he should revive.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II.
Scene 4. (Angelo before his interview with
Isabella.)

FAIR.-None but the brave deserves the fair.
DRYDEN.-Alexander's Feast, Verse 1.

Is she not passing fair?

SHAKSPERE.-Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV.
Scene 4. (Silvia to Julia.)

Oh! what perfections must that virgin share,
Who fairest is esteem'd, where all are fair.

PRIOR.-Henry and Emma, Line 72.

TOM MOORE.-Sovereign Woman, Vol. IX.
Page 413.

Oh, you paragon!-Angels must paint to look as fair as you.
REYNOLDS-The Dramatist, Act IV. Scene 1.

FAIR. Is not she more than mortal can desire;
As Venus lovely, and as Dian chaste?

LEE.-Alexander the Great, Act I. Scene 1.

What is so fair, so exquisitely good?

Is she not more than painting can express,

Or youthful poets fancy, when they love?

ROWE.-The Fair Penitent, Act III. Scene 1.

FAITH-Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek

Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 1140.

Faithful found

Among the faithless, faithful only he.

MILTON.-Ibid. Book V. Line 896.

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

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 305.

Ever note, Lucilius,

When love begins to sicken and decay,

It useth an enforced ceremony.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

SHAKSPERE. Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 2. (Brutus to Lucilius.)

There is no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 3. (Falstaff to the Hostess.)

On argument alone my faith is built.

YOUNG.-Night IV. Line 742.

FALL. I am not now in Fortune's power,

He that is down can fall no lower.

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part I. Canto III. Line 877.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate,

And greatly falling with a falling state.

POPE.-Prol. to Addison's Cato, Line 21.

What a falling off was there!

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5.

(The Ghost to Hamlet on his mother's marriage.)

FALL.-O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! SHAKSPERE. Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Antony to the Citzens.)

Those hands were joined with mine, to raise the wall
Of tottering Troy, now nodding to her fall.

DRYDEN-Ovid's Meta. Book XII.; The Eneid,
Book II.; POPE-Essay on Man, Epi. IV.;
HOMER, BOOK II. Line 17; DR. JOHNSON-
Irene; GRAY-Ruins at Kingsgate; STEPNEY
-Ode IX.; SCOTT-Last Minstrel, Canto VI.

FALLEN.-Fallen from his high estate.

FALSE.

DRYDEN.-Alexander's Feast, Stanza 4.

As for you,

Say what you can, my false o'erweighs you true.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II.
(Angelo to Isabella.)

Scene 4.

None speaks false, when there is none to hear.

BEATTIE.-The Minstrel, Book II. Verse XXIV.
Line 5.

FALSEHOOD.-O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Antonio to Bassanio.)

Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil,

The product of all climes.

ADDISON.-Cato, Act IV. Scene 4.

FAME.-Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.

POPE.-To Augustus, Book II. Epi. I. Line 26.

Fame is swiftest still when she goes laden
With news of mischief.-

Thus are we Fortune's pastimes; one day live
Advanc'd to heaven by the people's breath;
The next, hurl'd down into th' abyss of death.
MAY.-The Old Couple, Act V.

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

SHAKSPERE.-Titus Andronicus, Act I. Scene 2. (Lutius.)

FAME.-Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call:
She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.

POPE.-Temple of Fame, Line 513.

FAMOUS.-I awoke one morning, and found myself famous. BYRON.-In his Memoranda on the reception of Childe Harold by the public.

FAN-If I were now by this raseal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act II.
Scene 3. (Hotspur reading a Letter.)

FANCY.-Tell me where is fancy bred,

Or in the heart, or in the head?

How begot, how nourished?

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act III.
Scene 2. (A Song.)

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream,
Act II. Scene 2. (Oberon to Puck.)

Pacing through the forest, chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act IV. Scene 3. (Oliver to Celia.)

Chew on fair fancy's food: nor deem unmeet

I will not with a bitter chase the sweet.

ARIOSTO.-Orlando Furioso, Canto III.
Stanza 62. (Rose's Translation.)

An old hat, and the humour of forty fancies pricked in't for a feather.

SHAKSPERE.-Taming of the Shrew, Act III.
Scene II. (Biondello's description of
Pertruchio's lackey.)

FAR.-Beneath the good how far-but far above the great.
GRAY.-Progress of Poesy, Last Line.

Far fetch'd, and little worth.

COWPER.-The Task, Book I. Line 243.

Thus far into the bowels of the land

Have we march'd on without impediment.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act V. Scene 2. (Richmond.)

FARDELS-Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life;
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will;

And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.
(Soliloquy.) See "Conscience."

FAREWELL.-Her tears in freedom gush'd:
Big-bright-and fast, unknown to her they fell;
But still her lips refused to send-"Farewell!"
For in that word-that fatal word-howe'er
We promise-hope-believe-there breathes despair.
BYRON.-The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 15.

Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well:

Even though unforgiving, never

'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. BYRON.-Fare thee well.

Farewell! "But not for ever."

COWPER.-Monumental Inscription to Northcot.

1. Farewell at once; for once, for all, and ever. 2. Well, we may meet again.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act II. Scene 2. (Bushy to Green.)

If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;

If not, why then this parting was well made.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act V. Scene 1.
(Brutus to Cassius.)

Give me your hand first: fare you well.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act V. Scene 5.
(Strato to Brutus.)

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 108.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 3.
(To Iago.)