Chapter EVENING to EXHIBITION of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

EXAMPLE.—A fine example, master Gargle!

Murphy.—The Apprentice, Act I.

EXCEL.—Born to excel, and to command!
As by transcendent beauty to attract
All eyes, so by pre-eminence of soul
To rule all hearts.

Congreve.—Mourning Bride, Act I. Scene 2.

EXCELLENT.—It is excellent to have a giant’s strength;
But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 2. (Isabella to Angelo.)

Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not
Chaos is come again.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III, Scene 3. (Solus.)

EXCULPATE.—Now don’t attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act I. Scene 2.

EX FUMO DARE LUCEM.—To give light from smoke.

Horace. Motto of the Liverpool Gas Company.

One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke,
The other out of smoke brings glorious light.

Roscommon.—Horace’s Art of Poetry.

Sudden to glare, and in a smoke expire;
But rises from a cloud of smoke to light.

Francis.—Ibid. Line 206.

EXHIBITION.—Have you seen my picture, Miss, that’s in the expedition room? you’ll easily know it—it’s o’ the same side with the image there—Venus the Methodist, I thinks they calls it.

Bickerstaff and Foote.—Dr. Last and his Chariot, Act II. Scene 8.