Chapter FAIL to FALL of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FAIL to FALL

FAIL.—His failings lean’d to virtue’s side.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 164.

Mac.—If we should fail—
Lady.— We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth. Act I. Scene 7.

FAINT.—Faint heart ne’er won fair lady.

King.—Orpheus and Eurydice, Line 134.

And let us mind faint heart ne’er wan
A lady fair.

Burns.—To Dr. Blacklock.

So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons,
Come all to help him, and stop the air
By which he should revive.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 4. (Angelo before his interview with Isabella.)

FAIR.—None but the brave deserves the fair.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast, Verse 1.

Is she not passing fair?

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV. Scene 4. (Silvia to Julia.)

Oh! what perfections must that virgin share,
Who fairest is esteem’d, where all are fair.

Prior.—Henry and Emma, Line 72. Tom Moore.—Soverign Woman, Vol. IX, Page 413.

Oh, you paragon!—Angels must paint to look as fair as you.

Reynolds.—The Dramatist, Act IV. Scene 1.

FAIR.—Is not she more than mortal can desire;
As Venus lovely, and as Dian chaste?

Lee.—Alexander the Great, Act I. Scene 1.

What is so fair, so exquisitely good?
Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy, when they love?

Rowe.—The Fair Penitent, Act III. Scene 1.

FAITH.—Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve
The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek
Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 1140.

Faithful found
Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Milton.—Ibid. Book V. Line 896.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight,
His can’t be wrong, whose life is in the right.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 305.