Flattery.-'Tis an old maxim in the schools,

That FLATTERY's the food of fools;

Yet now and then your men of wit

Will condescend to take a bit.-SWIFT, Cadenus and Vanessa.

Flea. So, naturalists observe, a FLEA

Has smaller fleas that on him prey;

And these have smaller still to bite 'em ;

And so proceed ad infinitum.—Ibid., Poetry, a Rhapsody.

Fleas. Great FLEAS have little fleas

Upon their backs, to bite 'em;
And little fleas have lesser fleas,

And so ad infinitum.—LowELL, Biglow Papers.
Flesh.-O FLESH, flesh, how art thou fishified!

SHAKESPERE, Romeo and Juliet.

O, that this too, too solid FLESH would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew;

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. O God! O God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable

Seem to me all the uses of this world !-Ibid., Hamlet.

Flirtation. I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 66 FLIRTATION," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.-CHESTERFIELD, The World.

Flower. And 'tis my faith that every FLOWER

Enjoys the air it breathes.—WORDSWORTH, Early Spring. Flowers.-Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,

One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,

When he called the FLOWERS, so blue and golden,
Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

LONGFELLOW, Flowers.

Flying Dutchman.-The name given by sailors to a phantom ship, supposed to cruise in storms off the Cape of Good Hope. According to tradition, a Dutch captain, bound home from the Indies, met with long-continued head-winds and heavy weather off the Cape of Good Hope, and refused to put back as he was advised to do, swearing a very profane oath that he would beat round the Cape, if he had to beat there until the Day of Judgment. He was taken at his word, and doomed to beat against head-winds all his days. His sails are believed to have become threadbare, and his ship's sides white with age, and himself and crew reduced almost to shadows. He cannot heave-to, or lower a boat, but sometimes hails vessels through his trumpet, and requests them to take letters home for him. The superstition has its origin, probably, in the looming, or apparent suspension in the air, of some ship out of sight-a phenomenon sometimes witnessed at sea, and caused by unequal refraction in the lower strata of the atmosphere.

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Foe. He makes no friend who never made a FOE.-TENNYSON.

Foemen. The stern joy which warriors feel

In FOEMEN worthy of their steel.-SCOTT, Lady of the Lake.

Fool.

At thirty, man suspects himself a FOOL;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts.

Be wise with speed;

A FOOL at forty is a fool indeed.-Ibid., Love of Fame.

Every FOOL will be meddling.-Proverbs, xx. 3.

No creature smarts so little as a FOOL.-POPE, To Arbuthnot.
They FOOL me to the top of my bent.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.
In this FOOL's Paradise he drank delight.

CRABBE, The Borough.

Fools.-FOOLS admire, but men of sense approve.

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POPE, Essay on Criticism.

FOOLS make feasts, and wise men eat them.-B. FRANKLIN.

FOOLS rush in where angels fear to tread.

POPE, Essay on Criticism.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

The Paradise of rools, to few unknown.

She was a wight,-if ever such wight were,—
Des. To do what?

Iago. To suckle FOOLS, and chronicle small beer.
Des. O, most lame and impotent conclusion!— Ibid.,

Othello.

Foot. My FOOT is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Who overcomes

Force.-
By FORCE, hath overcome but half his foe.

SCOTT, Rob Roy.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Forefathers.-Each in his narrow cell forever laid,

The rude FOREFATHERS of the hamlet sleep.-GRAY, Elegy.

Forgave.-A coward never FORGAVE. It is not in his nature.STERNE.

Forgiveness.-FORGIVENESS to the injured does belong;

But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

DRYDEN, Conquest of Granada.

Forlorn Hope.-The leading company in an attack. From the German Verloren haufe-lost troop or band.

Fortune.-FORTUNE! if thou'll but gie me still
Hale breeks, a scone, an' whisky gill,
An' rowth o' rhyme to rave at will,
Tak' a' the rest;

An' deal't about as thy blind skill

Directs the best.-BURNS, Scotch Drink.

When FORTUNE means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

SHAKESPERE, King John.

Fragments. Gather up the FRAGMENTS that remain, that nothing be lost.-John, vi. 12.

Frailty.-FRAILTY! thy name is woman.-SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.
France." They order," I said, "this matter better in FRANCE.”
STERNE, Sentimental Journey.

Free. Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not,
Who would be FREE, themselves must strike the blow?

BYRON, Childe Harold.

Sufficient to have stood, though FREE to fall.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

We must be FREE or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespere spake, the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.-WORDSWORTH, Sonnets.

Freedom.--FREEDOM'S battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,

Though baffled oft, is ever won.-BYRON, The Giaour.

Ay, call it holy ground,

The soil where first they trod,

They have left unstain'd what there they found,—
FREEDOM to worship God.

Mrs. HEMANS, The Pilgrim Fathers.

For FREEDOM only deals the deadly blow;
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,
For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.

J. Q. ADAMS, Written in an Album.
Yet, FREEDOM! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.

Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage;

Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;

If I have FREEDOM in my love,

And in my soul am free,

Angels alone that soar above

BYRON, Childe Harold.

Enjoy such liberty.-RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea.

Freeman. He is the FREEMAN whom the truth makes free.

COWPER, The Task.

He was the FREEMAN whom the truth made free;
Who, first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
In spite of fools consulted seriously.

POLLOK, Course of Time.

Freemen.-Corrupted FREEMEN are the worst of slaves.-GARRICK. Friend. A faithful FRIEND is the true image of the Deity.

NAPOLEON I.

A FRIEND loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs, xvii. 17.

A FRIEND should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

SHAKESPERE, Julius Cæsar.
Faithful are the wounds of a FRIEND.-Proverbs, xxvii. 6.

Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet-perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid FRIEND!

G. CANNING, New Morality.

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a FRIEND sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.-LYTTON.

Mine own familiar FRIEND.-Psalm lv. 14.

Officious, innocent, sincere;

Of every friendless name the FRIEND.

Dr. JOHNSON, Verses on Levet.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumping on your back
His sense of your great merit,

Is such a FRIEND, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed

To pardon or to bear it.-CowPER, Friendship.

Friends.-Alas! they had been FRIENDS in youth;

But whispering tongues can poison truth;

And constancy lives in realms above;

And life is thorny, and youth is vain;

And to be wroth with one we love,

Doth work like madness in the brain.-COLERIDGE, Christabel.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:

The FRIENDS thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.
He cast off his FRIENDS, as a huntsman his pack,
For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.
GOLDSMITH, Retaliation.

Friends. I would not enter on my list of FRIENDS

(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,

Yet wanting sensibility) the man

Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.-CowPER, The Task.

Old FRIENDS are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.-SELDEN, Table Talk.

Friendship. FRIENDSHIP! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweet'ner of life! and solder of society !-BLAIR, The Grave.
A generous FRIENDSHIP no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

What is FRIENDSHIP but a name,

A charm that lulls to sleep,

A shade that follows wealth or fame,

POPE, Homer's Iliad.

And leaves the wretch to weep?-GOLDSMITH, The Hermit. Fudge, Mr.-A contemptuous designation bestowed upon any absurd or lying writer or talker.

There was, sir, in our time, one Captain FUDGE, commander of a merchantman, who upon his return from a voyage, how ill fraught soever his ship was, always brought home to his owners a good cargo of lies, insomuch that now aboard ship the sailors, when they hear a great lie told, cry out, "You Fudge it."

Remarks upon the Navy (London, 1700).

With a due respect to their antiquity, and the unchanged reputation always attached to the name, we have long held in high consideration the ancient family of FUDGES. Some of them, as we know, have long resided in England, and have been ever ready to assist in her domestic squabbles and political changes. But their favourite place of residence we understand to be in Ireland. Their usual modes of expression, indeed, are akin to the figurative talk of the Emerald islanders.—British and Foreign Review.

Future.-Trust no FUTURE, howe'er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!-LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life.

G.

Galled Jade.-Let the GALLED JADE wince, our withers are unwrung.
SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Gath.-Tell it not in GATH.-2 Samuel, i. 20.
Gem.-Full many a GEM of purest ray serene

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear;

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.—GRAY, Elegy.