Eternal City, The.-A popular and very ancient designation of Rome, which was fabled to have been built under the favour and immediate direction of the gods. The expression, or its equivalent, frequently occurs in classic authors, as Livy, Tibullus, Quintilian, &c. In the Eneid, Virgil, following the received tradition, represents Jupiter as holding the following language to Venus, in reference to the Romans, who were supposed to be the descendants of her son Æneas:

To them no bounds of empire I assign,

No term of years to their IMMORTAL line.-DRYDEN, Trans. Eternity.-ETERNITY, whose end no eye can reach.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

The setting sun stretched his celestial rods of light
Across the level landscape, and, like the Hebrews
In Egypt, smote the rivers, brooks, and ponds,
And they became as blood.-LONGFELLOW.

Now came still EVENING on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleas'd: now glowed the firmament
With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length
Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Events.-'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming EVENTS cast their shadows before.

CAMPBELL'S Lochiel's Warning.

Everyone. EVERYONE is as God made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.-Don Quixote.

Evil. EVIL is wrought by want of thought

As well as want of heart.-HOOD, The Lady's Dream.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears:
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The EVIL that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.

From seeming EVIL still educing good.-THOMSON, Hymn.

SHAKESPERE, Julius Cæsar.

Imitation of Christ.

Of two EVILS, the less is always to be chosen.

Evil.-One impulse from a vernal wood

May teach you more of man,

Of moral EVIL and of good,

Than all the sages can.-WORDSWORTH, Tables Turned.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,

Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost.

EVIL, be thou my good.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.

There is some soul of goodness in things EVIL,

Would men observingly distil it out.-SHAKESPERE, Henry V.

Example.-EXAMPLE is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Excess. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,

To throw a perfume on the violet,

To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light

To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,

REV. R. CECIL.

Is wasteful and ridiculous EXCESS.-SHAKESPERE, King John.

Exile. There came to the beach a poor EXILE of Erin;
The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill!
For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing,
To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill.

CAMPBELL, The Exile of Erin.

Expectation.--Oft EXPECTATION fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.-SHAKESPERE, All's Well.

'Tis EXPECTATION makes a blessing dear;

Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it were.

Sir J. SUCKLING, Against Fruition.

Experience.-EXPERIENCE keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.-B. FRANKLIN.

EXPERIENCE does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.-T. CARLYLE.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than EXPERIENCE to make me sad.—SHAKESPERE, As You Like It.

Long EXPERIENCE made him sage.

GAY, The Shepherd and the Philosopher.

Extremes.-EXTREMES in nature equal good produce;

Extremes in man concur to general use.-POPE, Moral Essays.

Eye. All seems infected that th' infected spy,

As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd EYE.

Ibid., Essay on Criticism.

Eye. An unforgiving EYE, and a damned disinheriting countenance. SHERIDAN, School for Scandal.

Eyes.-EYES that droop like summer flowers.-L. E. L.

CERVANTES, Don Quixote.

Her FACE is like the milky way i' the sky,
A meeting of gentle lights without a name.

Sir JOHN SUCKLING, Brennoralt.

There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the FACE.

SHAKESPERE, Macbeth.

FACES are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us. —LAVATER.

Sea of upturned FACES.-Sir W. SCOTT, Rob Roy. DANIEL WEBSTER, Speech, Sept. 1842.

Facts.-FACTS are stubborn things.-SMOLLETT, Trans. Gil Blas.

But FACTS are chiels that winna ding,

An' downa be disputed.—BURNS, A Dream.

The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his FACTS.

SHERIDAN, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas.

If we should FAIL,

Fail.-Macb.
Lady M.
We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.—SHAKESPERE, Macbeth.

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
AS-FAIL.-LYTTON, Richelieu.

Failings. And e'en his FAILINGS lean'd to virtue's side.

GOLDSMITH, Deserted Village.

Faint.-FAINT heart ne'er won fair lady.-BRITAIN, Ida. KING, Orpheus and Eurydice. BURNS, To Dr. Blacklock. COLMAN, Love Laughs at Locksmiths.

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

COWLEY, On Crashaw..

In FAITH and Hope the world will disagree,

But all mankind's concern is charity.-POPE, Essay on Man.
O welcome pure-ey'd FAITH, white-handed Hope.

Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!-MILTON.
Perplex'd in FAITH, but pure in deeds,

At last he beat his music out.

There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

TENNYSON, In Memoriam.

'Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
Of FAITH, and round the sufferer's temples bind
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

WORDSWORTH, Sonnets.

Faithful.--So spake the seraph Abdiel, FAITHFUL found

Among the faithless, faithful only he.-MILTON, Paradise Lost. Fallen.-FALLEN, fallen, fallen, fallen,

Fallen from his high estate,

And weltering in his blood;
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;

On the bare earth expos'd he lies,

With not a friend to close his eyes.--DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast.

False. But all was FALSE and hollow; though his tongue

Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.

FALSE as dicers' oaths.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.
Falsehood.-A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside FALSEHOOD hath!

Ibid., Merchant of Venice.

Had I a heart for FALSEHOOD framed,
I ne'er could injure you.-SHERIDAN, The Duenna.
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear

Touch'd lightly; for no FALSEHOOD can endure
Touch of celestial temper.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.
Fame.-FAME is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
(That last infirmity of noble mind)

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 slit the thin-spun life.—Ibid., Lycidas.

Fame.-Above all Greek, above all Roman FAME.-POPE'S Horace.

All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to FAME.

Ibid., Dunciad.

Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb

The steep where FAME's proud temple shines afar?

BEATTIE, The Minstrel,

Better than FAME is still the wish for fame,
The glorious training for a glorious strife.-LYTTON.

FAME is no plant that grows on mortal soil.-MILTON, Lycidas.

Folly loves the martyrdom of FAME.

BYRON, Death of Sheridan.

Men the most infamous are fond of FAME,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

CHURCHILL, The Author.

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

POPE, Windsor Forest.

Nothing can cover his high FAME, but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,

But the eternal substance of his greatness;

To which I leave him.-BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome
Outlives in FAME the pious fool that raised it.

COLLEY CIBBER, Richard III.

The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest FAME, than shedding seas of gore.

BYRON, Don Juan.

The perfume of heroic deeds.-SOCRATES.
Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest FAME, or grant me none !

POPE, Windsor Forest.

What is the end of FAME? 'tis but to fill

A certain portion of uncertain paper.-BYRON, Don Juan.
What rage for FAME attends both great and small!

Better be d-d than mentioned not at all.-Dr. J. WOLCOTT.

What shall I do to be forever known,

And make the age to come my own ?-COWLEY, The Motto.
Familiarly. Talks as FAMILIARLY of roaring lions,
As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!

SHAKESPERE, King John.

Families.-Great FAMILIES of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

DEFOE, True-Born Englishman.