Of old sat Freedom on the heights. TENNYSON, Of Old Sat Freedom, st. 1 A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. TENNYSON, You Ask Me Why, st. 3 Wherever outraged Nature The throbbing heart of Freedom finds Freeman. WHITTIER, The Hero, st. 24, 25 He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, When your youngest, the mealy-mouthed rector, KINGSLEY, The Bad Squire,' st. 19 A weapon that comes down as still But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God." JOHN PIERPONT, A Word from a Petitioner, st. 14 Showed their fierce zeal a worthier cause, And brought the freeman's arm to aid the freeman's laws. Frenchman. The Frenchman's darling [mignonette]. COWPER, The Task: The Winter Evening, line 765 Fret. Fret till your proud heart breaks. SHAKESPEARE, Julius Cæsar, iv, 3 1 Also known as "A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter." The crowning fact, The kingliest act Of Freedom is the freeman's vote!-WHITTIER, The Eve of Election, st. 8 Friar. It was a friar of orders grey1 Walked forth to tell his beads; And he met with a lady fair Clad in a pilgrim's weeds. THOMAS PERCY, The Friar of Orders Grey (Adapted from old ballads), st. I Friend. To mark a friend's remains these stones arise BYRON, Inscription on the Monument of a Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, G. CANNING, New Morality A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not danger's post; And, like the lifeboat, proves a friend when friends are wanted most. ELIZA COOK, The Lifeboat Is a Gallant Bark, st. 2 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, SHAKESPEARE, Julius Cæsar, iv, 3 The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 Friends. TENNYSON, Lancelot and Elaine, line 1082 None wrote his epitaph, nor saw the beauty He kept, despite the dark; but men less brave ALICE CARY, Uncle Jo, st. 10 It was the friar of orders grey, 2 David Garrick. SHAKESPEARE, Taming of the Shrew, iv, I Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and LONGFELLOW, Courtship of Miles Standish, We have been friends together Shall a light word part us now?--LADY CAROLINE Where are my friends? I am alone, No playmate shares my beaker Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some compose a rondo; And some draw sword for liberty, And some draw pleas for John Doe. PRAED, School and School-Fellows, st. 5 Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk: Friends You knot of mouth-friends! Friendship. SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 3 SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens, iii, 6 Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new (Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure. YOUNG, Night Thoughts, II, lines 588, 589 Friendships. So vanish friendships only made in wine. TENNYSON, Geraint and Enid, line 479 Front. To front a lie in arms and not to yield. LOWELL, Commemoration Ode, st. 5 Frown.- Fear no more the frown o' the great; SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline, iv, 2 Fruit. The ripest fruit first falls. SHAKESPEARE, King Richard II, ii, 1 The weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name. YOUNG, Night Thoughts, V, line 774 Fuel.- Adding fuel to the flame. MILTON, Samson Agonistes, line 1351 Fun.-There's fun in everything we meet,— The greatest, worst, and best; And every speech a jest. Funeral. J. R. DRAKE, The Man Who Frets at Strife, st. 2 Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, i, 2 Future.- Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! LONGFELLOW, Psalm of Life, st. 6 O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, EDWIN MARKHAM, The Man with the Hoe, st. 6 I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. WHITTIER, The Eternal Goodness, st. 16 Fuzzy-Wuzzy. So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen, but a first-class fightin' man; An ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air You big black boundin' beggar - for you broke a British Gaberdine. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, Gale. And all for use of that which is mine own. SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 The sea was all a boiling seething froth, JEAN INGELOW, Brothers, and a Sermon Gall. Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, iii, 2 with a goose-pen. Game.-There's blood on your new foreign shrubs, squire, There's blood on the game you sell, squire, The game is up. Gangrened. KINGSLEY, The Bad Squire,' st. 8 Gangrened members must be lopped away, Before the nobler parts are tainted to decay. DRYDEN, Ovid's Metamorphoses, I, lines 248, 249 Garden. Come into the garden, Maud, Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone. TENNYSON, Maud, xxii, st. I Gardener. Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good.2 Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. TENNYSON, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, st. 7 Garret.— Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. BYRON, Sketch from Private Life, st. 1 Gate.- Claps the gate behind thee. COWPER, On a Mischievous Bull, st. 6 Gay.- Lady, when first your mirth Mine was the gayest soul on earth My songs were full of joy,- PRAED, The Parting, st. 5 Gazelle. I never nursed a dear gazelle T. MOORE, Lalla Rookh: The Fire-Worshippers 1 Also known as A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter." 2 We'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we'll be good. ANONYMOUS, Winifreda, st. 2 |