EVILS.-Of two evils the less is always to be chosen.
THOMAS A KEMPIS.-Book III. Chap. XII. Div. 2.

'Twas always held, and ever will,

By sage mankind, discreeter,

To anticipate a lesser ill

Than undergo a greater.

SHENSTONE.-To the Memory of an Agreeable
Lady, Vol. I.

EXAMPLE.-A fine example, master Gargle!
MURPHY.-The Apprentice, Act I.

EXCEL.-Born to excel, and to command!
As by transcendent beauty to attract
All eyes, so by pre-eminence of soul

To rule all hearts.

CONGREVE.-Mourning Bride, Act I. Scene 2.

EXCELLENT.-It is excellent to have a giant's strength;
But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II.
Scene 2. (Isabella to Angelo.)

Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul

But I do love thee! and when I love thee not

Chaos is come again.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Solus.)

EXCULPATE.-Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it. SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act I. Scene 2.

EX FUMO DARE LUCEM.-To give light from smoke. HORACE.

Motto of the Liverpool Gas Company.

One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke,
The other out of smoke brings glorious light.

ROSCOMMON.-HORACE'S Art of Poetry.

Sudden to glare, and in a smoke expire;
But rises from a cloud of smoke to light.

FRANCIS.-Ibid. Line 206.

EXHIBITION.-Have you seen my picture, Miss, that's in the expedition room? you'll easily know it-it's o' the same side with the image there-Venus the Methodist, I thinks they calls it.

BICKERSTAFF and FOOTE.-Dr. Last and his
Chariot, Act II. Scene 8.

EXILE.-There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin.
CAMPBELL.-The Exile of Erin.

EXISTENCE.-Did man compute
Existence by enjoyment, and count o'er

Such hours 'gainst years of life, say, would he name threescore? BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 34.

EXPECT.-We never expected any love from one another, and so we were never disappointed.

SHERIDAN.-The Duenna, Act I. Scene 3.

EXPENSE.-'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense,
And splendour borrows all her rays from sense.

POPE.-Moral Essays, to Burlington, Epi. IV.
Line 179.

EXPRESSION.-Preserving the sweetness of proportion, and expressing itself beyond expression.

BEN JONSON.-The Masque of Hymen.

EXTREMES.-Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.

COWLEY.-The Davideis, Book III. Line 205.

EYE.-An eye like Mars, to threaten or command. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (Hamlet to his Mother.)

There lies more peril in thine eye,

Than twenty of their swords.

SHAKSPERE - Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2. (To Juliet.)

Eyes, look your last!

Arms, take your last embrace!

SHAKSPERE-Ibid. Act V. Scene 3

(Romeo just before taking the poison.)

Her eye's dark charm 'twere vain to tell,

But gaze on that of the gazelle,

It will assist thy fancy well.

BYRON.-The Giaour, Line 485.

I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight. SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act II. Scene 1.

EYE.-The tuneful voice, the eye that spoke the mind,
Are gone, nor leave a single trace behind.

LLOYD.-The Actor.

She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were

silent.

AARON HILL.-Snake in the Grass, Scene 1.

EYES.-I scarcely can believe my ears or eyes,
Or find out Cibber through the dark disguise.

CHURCHILL.-The Rosciad, Line 801.

We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust far more than ten ear witnesses.

HERRICK.-The Hesperides, Aphorism, No. 158.

He's not to be commended

Who trusts another any further than he sees.

RILEY'S Plautus, Vol. II. Truculentus, Act II.
Scene 2.

I ne'er could any lustre see

In eyes that would not look on me;

I ne'er saw nectar on a lip,

But where my own did hope to sip.

SHERIDAN.-The Duenna, Act I. Scene 2.

"Twas from Kathleen's eyes he flew,

Eyes of most unholy blue!

TOM MOORE.-Irish Melodies, "By that Lake, "
Line 9.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,

For lovers love the western star.

WALTER SCOTT.-The Lay of the Last Minstrel,
Canto III. Stanza 24, Last Lines.

Of microscopic power, that could discern

The population of a dew-drop.

With eyes

Pelican Island,

JAMES MONTGOMERY.-The

Canto VII.

FACE. In her face excuse came prologue, and apology too prompt.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 853.

It is not night when I do see your face.

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer N. D., Act II. Scene 2. (Helena to Demetrius.)

FACE. Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 5,
(Lady Macbeth to her Husband.)

Each man wears three nations in his face.
DRYDEN.-Prol. to Cæsar Borgia.

Can't I another's face commend,
And to her virtues prove a friend,
But instantly your forehead lours,
As if her merit lessen'd yours?

EDWARD MOORE.-The Farmer, and Spaniel, and
Cat, Line 5.

O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!
SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act III.

Scene 2. (Juliet on hearing that Romeo had
slain Tybalt.)

Was ever book containing such vile matter

So fairly bound?

SHAKSPERE. Ibid. (Juliet on the same occasion.)

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I.
Scene 3. (Antonio aside to Bassanio.)

A face without a heart.

SHAKSPERE.-Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 7.
(The King to Laertes.)

He lives to build, not boast a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

SAVAGE.-The Bastard, Line 7.

Her face was like an April morn,
Clad in a wintry cloud :

And clay-cold was her lily hand,
That held her sable shroud.

MALLET.-Margaret's Ghost, 3 Percy Rel. 392.

Yet no cold vot'ress of the cloister she,
Warm her devotion, warm her charity;
The face the index of a feeling mind,
And her whole conduct rational and kind.

CRABBE.-Tales of the Hall, Book XVI.

FACE. "Tis not thy face, though that by nature's made
An index to thy soul, though there display'd
We see thy mind at large, and through thy skin
Peeps out that courtesy which dwells within.
CHURCHILL.-The Dedication.

There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the face;
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 4.
(Duncan alluding to Cawdor, whom he had
executed.)

Open, candid, and generous, his heart was the constant companion of his hand, and his tongue the artless index of his mind.

GEORGE CANNING.-Microcosm, No. XIX.
19th March, 1797.

O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act III.
Scene 2. (The Duke on Angelo.)

So nature has decreed: so oft we see
Men passing fair, in outward lineaments
Elaborate; less, inwardly, exact.

J. PHILLIPS.-Cider, Book I.

EUSTHENES judged men by their features.

THEOCRITUS.-Buckley, Page 160.

It strikes the eye more than the mind.
SENECA.-Epistle 5.

No more can you distinguish of a man

Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,
Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act III.

Scene 1. (Richard to the Prince of Wales.)

His face was of that doubtful kind,

That wins the eye but not the mind.

SCOTT.-Rokeby, Canto V. Stanza 16.

Her face all red and white, like the inside of a shoulder of mutton.

FOOTE.-The Knights, Act I.