Chapter EXILE to FACE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

EXILE to FACE

EXILE.—There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin.

Campbell.—The Exile of Erin.

EXISTENCE.—Did man compute
Existence by enjoyment, and count o’er
Such hours ’gainst years of life, say, would he name threescore?

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 34.

EXPECT.—We never expected any love from one another, and so we were never disappointed.

Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act I. Scene 3.

EXPENSE.—’Tis use alone that sanctifies expense,
And splendour borrows all her rays from sense.

Pope.—Moral Essays, to Burlington, Epi. IV. Line 179.

EXPRESSION.—Preserving the sweetness of proportion, and expressing itself beyond expression.

Ben Jonson.—The Masque of Hymen.

EXTREMES.—Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.

Cowley.—The Davideis, Book III. Line 205.

EYE.—An eye like Mars, to threaten or command.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (Hamlet to his Mother.)

There lies more peril in thine eye,
Than twenty of their swords.

Shakespeare—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2 (To Juliet.)

Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!

Shakespeare.—Ibid. Act V. Scene 3 (Romeo just before taking the poison.)

Her eye’s dark charm ’twere vain to tell,
But gaze on that of the gazelle,
It will assist thy fancy well.

Byron.—The Giaour, Line 485.

I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 1.

EYE.—The tuneful voice, the eye that spoke the mind,
Are gone, nor leave a single trace behind.

Lloyd.—The Actor.

She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent.

Aaron Hill.—Snake in the Grass, Scene 1.

EYES.—I scarcely can believe my ears or eyes,
Or find out Cibber through the dark disguise.

Churchill.—The Rosciad, Line 801.

We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust far more than ten ear witnesses.