Chapter EPHRAIM to EVE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

EPHRAIM to EVE

EPHRAIM.—Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Hosea.—Chap. VII. Verse 8.

EPITHETS.—Sure If I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act III. Scene 3.

EPITOME.—A man so various, that he seem’d to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome:
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;
Was every thing by starts, and nothing long;
But, in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon:
Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.

Dryden.—Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I. Line 545.

Railing and praising were his usual themes;
And both, to shew his judgment, in extremes:
So over violent, or over civil,
That every man with him was god or devil.

Ibid.—Line 555.

EQUAL.—Young Celadon
And his Amelia were a matchless pair:
With equal virtue form’d and equal grace,
The same, distinguish’d by their sex alone:
Her’s the mild lustre of the blooming morn,
And his the radiance of the risen day.

Thomson.—Summer, Line 1171.

ERMINE.—Spots on ermine beautify the skin.

Collins.—Eclogue I. Line 38 (Selim.)

ERR.—Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human—to forgive divine.

Pope.—Essay on Criticism, Part II. Line 525.

ERRED.—The best may slip, and the most cautious fall;
He’s more than mortal that ne’er err’d at all.

Pomfret.—Love Triumphant.

Thou Power unknown, if I have err’d forgive:
My infancy was taught what I believe.

Dryden.—Conquest of Granada, Part II. Act V. Scene 2.

ERRORS.—If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you’ll forget ’em all.

Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto II.

Spare his error for his virtue’s sake.

Whitehead.—Prol. to the Orphan of China.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

Dryden.—Prol. to All for Love, Line 25.

ESCAPE.—Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain;—But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.