Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried beings, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass. But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. 1431 ETIQUETTE. Addison: Cato. Act v. Sc There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, 1432 Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 103 JVENING -see Night, Sunset, Twilight. Now came still evening on; and twilight gray 1433 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 598 The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. 1434 Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Sc. & The sun has lost his rage, his downward orb And vital lustre, that, with various ray, Lights up the clouds, those beauteous robes of heaven, The dream of waking fancy. 1435 Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 1373 And the night shall be filled with music, 1436 Longfellow: The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Longfellow: The Day is Done The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, 1438 Gray: Elegy. St... EVENING. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, 155 Goldsmith: Deserted Village. Line 113 Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, 1440 Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 36 Come, evening, once again, season of peace; With matron step, slow moving, while the night On bird and beast, the other charged for man 1441 Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 243 It was an evening bright and still Could happen in so sweet an hour. 1442 Moore: Loves of Angels. Second Angel's Story. How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, Moore: How Dear to Me the Hour The sun is set; the swallows are asleep; Wakes not one ripple from its silent dream. 1444 Shelley Evening It is the hour when from the boughs 1445 EVIL-see Crime, Vice. Byron Parisina. St. 1 There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 1446 Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1 Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, 1447 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 2. 1449 Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 3 1451 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 108. James Russell Lowell. Prometheus. But evil is wrought by want of thought 1452 XAGGERATION. Mira de lente, as 'tis i' th' adage, Id est, to make a leek a cabbage. 1453 EXAMPLE. Hood: Lady's Dream. Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 847 The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones. Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2 1454 How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 1455 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1 EXAMPLE-EXCESS. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 157 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i Sc. 3. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, 1457 By his life alone, Shaks.: M. for M. Act i. Sc. 1. Whittier: The Pennsylvania Pi'grim. Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown. 1458 EXCESS Emerson: Threnody. Line 266. see Extremes, Satiety. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, 1461 Shaks.: King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. 1462 Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 6. Violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 1463 Shaks.: Richard II. Act. ii. Sc. 1. 1 A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. 1464 EXCLAMATIONS. Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 3 Angels and ministers of grace, defend us! 1465 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. O, my prophetic soul! mine uncle! 1466 Think of that, Master Brook. 1467 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. Shaks. Mer. W. of W. Act iii. Sc. 5. Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 330. Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen. 1468 Whence and what art thou, execrable Shape? 1469 EXCULPATION. Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 681. The very head and front of my offending 1470 EXCUSES. Shaks.: Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. Oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse; As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patched. See they suffer death; But in their deaths remember they are men; Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. 1473 EXILE -see Emigration. Addison: Cato. Act iii. Sc. 5. Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed, Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 407 Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon: 1475 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 64 |