Chapter FALLEN to FAR of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FALLEN to FAR

FALLEN.—Fallen from his high estate.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast, Stanza 4.

FALSE.— As for you,
Say what you can, my false o’erweighs you true.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 4. (Angelo to Isabella.)

None speaks false, when there is none to hear.

Beattie—The Minstrel, Book II. Verse XXIV. Line 5.

FALSEHOOD.—O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Antonio to Bassanio.)

Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil,
The product of all climes.

Addison.—Cato, Act IV. Scene 4.

FAME.—Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.

Pope.—To Augustus, Book II. Epi. I. Line 26.

Fame is swiftest still when she goes laden
With news of mischief.—
Thus are we Fortune’s pastimes; one day live
Advanc’d to heaven by the people’s breath;
The next, hurl’d down into th’ abyss of death.

May.—The Old Couple, Act V.

He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause.

Shakespeare.—Titus Andronicus, Act I. Scene 2. (Lutius.)

FAME.—Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call:
She comes unlook’d for, if she comes at all.

Pope.—Temple of Fame, Line 513.

FAMOUS.—I awoke one morning, and found myself famous.

Byron.—In his Memoranda on the reception of Childe Harold by the public.

FAN.—If I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady’s fan.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Scene 3. (Hotspur reading a Letter.)

FANCY.—Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 2. (A Song.)

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II. Scene 2. (Oberon to Puck.)

Pacing through the forest, chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act IV. Scene 3. (Oliver to Celia.)

Chew on fair fancy’s food: nor deem unmeet
I will not with a bitter chase the sweet.