Famous. I awoke one morning and found myself FAMOUS. Fancy.-Bright-eyed FANCY, hovering o'er, Pacing through the forest, GRAY, Progress of Poesy. Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter FANCY. SHAKESPERE, As You Like It. Far.-FAR as the solar walk or milky way.-POPE, Essay on Man. Farewell.-FARE thee WELL! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.-BYRON, Fare thee well. SHAKESPERE, Henry VIII. BYRON, Childe Harold. FAREWELL! For in that word,—that fatal word,--howe'er FAREWELL, happy fields, Ibid., The Corsair. FAREWELL the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! SHAKESPERE, Othello. Farewell. The bitter word which closed all earthly friendships, and finished every feast of love,-FAREWELL. POLLOK, The Course of Time. Fasten.-FASTEN him as a nail in a sure place.—Isaiah, xxii. 23. Fat.-Who drives FAT oxen should himself be fat. BOSWELL, Johnson. Fata Morgana.-The name of a potent fairy, celebrated in the tales of chivalry, and in the romantic poems of Italy. She was a pupil of the enchanter Merlin, and the sister of Arthur, to whom she discovered the intrigue of Queen Guinevere with Lancelot of the Lake. In the "Orlando Inamorato" of Bojardo, she appears at first as a personification of Fortune, inhabiting a splendid residence at the bottom of a lake, and dispensing all the treasures of the earth; but she is afterwards found in her proper station, subject, with the other fairies and the witches, to the all-potent Demogorgon. At the present day, the appellation of FATA MORGANA is given to a strange meteoric phenomenon, nearly allied to the mirage, witnessed, in certain states of the tide and weather, in the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily, and occasionally, though rarely, on other coasts. It consists in the appearance, in the air over the surface of the sea, of multiplied inverted images of objects on the surrounding coasts, -groves, hills, and towers,-all represented as in a moving picture. The spectacle is popularly supposed to be produced by the fairy whose name is given to it. Fate. A few seem favourites of FATE, In pleasure's lap carest; Yet, think not all the rich and great Are likewise truly blest.-BURNS, Man was Made to Mourn. Ask me no more; thy FATE and mine are seal'd; I strove against the stream and all in vain: Let the great river take me to the main : No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield; TENNYSON, The Princess. POPE, Essay on Man. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of FATE. And binding nature fast in FATE, COLLEY CIBBER, Richard III. Father.-FATHER of all! in every age By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.-POPE, Universal Prayer. Her FATHER lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it: Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach; And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history: Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak,-such was the process. If the man who turnips cries SHAKESPERE, Othello. Have a turnip than his father.-Johnsoniana. It is a wise FATHER that knows his own child. SHAKESPERE, Merchant of Venice. With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, "My FATHER made them all!" Fathom.-Full FATHOM five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; But doth suffer a sea-change COWPER, The Task. Into something rich and strange.-SHAKESPERE, Tempest. Fault. And, oftentimes, excusing of a FAULT Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.-Ibid., King John. Condemn the FAULT, and not the actor of it. He that does one FAULT at first, Ibid., Measure for Measure. And lies to hide it, makes it two.-WATTS, Song xv. Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A FAULT which needs it most grows two thereby. HERBERT, The Church Porch. Faults. They say, best men are moulded out of FAULTS. Faultless.-Whoever thinks a FAULTLESS piece to see, POPE, Essay on Criticism. Favourite.-A FAVOURITE has no friend.-GRAY. FEAR is the mother of safety.-Sir H. TAYLOR. Honour the King.-1 Peter, ii. 17. ED. BURKE. FEAR guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment. O, FEAR not in a world like this, Fears. GOLDSMITH. To suffer and be strong.-LONGFELLOW, The Light of the Stars. Are less than horrible imaginings.—SHAKESPERE, Macbeth. Feast.-A FEAST of fat things.-Isaiah, xxv. 6. Feather in your Cap.-A success or triumph. The feather has always been used as an emblem of rank as well as ornament. Latham states that, amongst some wild Indian tribes, every warrior who kills an enemy puts a feather into his cap for each victim. Features.-FEATURES―the great soul's apparent seat. Feet. Her FEET beneath her petticoat But O, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.-Sir J. SUCKLING. Her pretty FEET, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bopeep, W. C. BRYANT. Did soon draw in again.-ROBERT HERRICK. Fie, foh, fum.— FIE, FOH, and FUM, I smell the blood of a British man.-SHAKESPERE, King Lear. Fields. His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a babbled of green FIELDS. SHAKESPERE, Henry V. Fight.-FIGHT the good fight.-1 Timothy, vi. 12. Fight. That same man, that runnith awaie, Maie again FIGHT an other daie.--ERASMUS, Apothegms. For those that fly may FIGHT again, Which he can never do that's slain.-BUTLER, Hudibras. Fights. He that FIGHTS and runs away May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.-RAY, History of the Rebellion. For he who FIGHTS and runs away Can never rise aud fight again. The Art of Poetry, Edited by O. GOLDSMITH (?). Fine. That air and harmony of shape express, FINE by degrees and beautifully less.-PRIOR, Henry and Emma. Fire.-A little FIRE is quickly trodden out, SHAKSPERE, Henry V1. Firmament.-The spacious FIRMAMENT on high, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.-ADDISON, Ode. First. To the memory of the man, FIRST in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. General LEE, Eulogy on Washington. Fish. Neither FISH nor flesh, nor good red herring.-Sir H. SHEERS, Satyr on the Sea Officers. TOM BROWN, Eneus Sylvius's Letter. DRYDEN, Epilogue to the Duke of Guise. Fishes.-3 Fisherman. Master, I marvel how the FISHES live in the sea. 1 Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.-SHAKESPERE, Pericles. Fits.-'Twas sad by FITS, by starts 'twas wild. COLLINS, The Passions. Flatterers.- By FLATTERERS besieg'd, When FLATTERERS meet, the Devil goes to dinner.—DEFOE. Flattery.-FLATTERY is the bellows blows up sin. SHAKESPERE, Pericles. Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds.--PRIOR. |