When you speak he listens with a vacant eye, when you walk he watches you with a curled lip, if he dines with you, he sends away your best hock with a wry face. (Bulwer's England.)

Nor is the stream

Of purest crystal, nor the lucid air,

Tho' one transparent vacancy it seems,
Void of their unseen people.

My next desire is, void of care and strife,
To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life.

Baffled and fool'd, and all my hopes and labours
Defeated and made void.

(Thomson's Summer.)

(Dryden.)

1. ENCOMIUM, 2. EULOGY, 3. PANEGYRIC. 1. Lobrede, Lobgesang; 2. Lob, Preis; 3. Lobrede.

Das erste Hauptwort wird mehr auf die Sache, das zweite auf Perfonen im Allgemeinen, auf ihren Charakter und ihre Handlungen; das dritte auf irgend eine besondere Person angewendet, und kann oft nur Schmeichelei sein.

We bestow encomiums upon any work or art, or production of genius, without reference to the performer; we bestow eulogies on the exploits of a hero, who is of another age or country; we write panegyrics either in a direct address, or in direct reference to the person who is panegyrized.

Our lawyers are, with justice, copious in their encomiums on the common law. (Blackstone.)

Courage, indeed, seems to have been hereditary in his family (Brasidas), as it no doubt was in the whole Spartan nation: for when his mother received the news of his death, she asked the persons who brought her the intelligence, whether he died honourably; and when they begun to launch out into encomiums on his gallantry and heroism, and to prefer him to all the generals of his time;,,Yes" said she,,, my son was a brave man, but Sparta has still many citizens braver than he." (Goldsmith's hist. of Greece.) Sallust would say of Cato, That he had rather be than appear good" but indeed this eulogium rose no higher than to an inoffensiveness. (Steele.)

I am, sir, a practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing, at your service or any body else's. (Sheridan's Critic.)

An enumeration of her qualities might carry the appearance of a panegyric; an account of her conduct must in some parts wear the aspect of a severe satire and invective. (Hume's hist.)

On me when dunces are satiric,

I take it for a panegyric.

1. To END,

(Swift.)

2. CLOSE, 3. TERMINATE.

1. Enden, endigen; 2. schließen, sich schließen; 3. ein Ende machen, sich endigen.

Das erste Zeitwort bedeutet: endigen, ohne Nebenbegriff, und ist daher der Gattungsbegriff; das zweite: stufenweise endigen, und das dritte: auf eine eigenthümliche Weise endigen, das Ende bewirken.

There are persons even in civilized countries so ignorant as, like the brutes, to end their lives as they began them, without one rational reflection. He ended his dispute, or put an end to it, by yielding the subject of contest. The Christian closes his career of active duty only with the failure of his bodily powers. He terminated the dispute by entering into a compromise. I had a mind to know how each of these roads terminated.

By those, that deepest feel, is ill exprest
The indistinctness of the suffering breast;
Where thousand thoughts begin to end in' one,
Which seeks from all the refuge found in none;
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For Truth denies all eloquence to Woe.

(Byron's Corsair.)

But the suite of rooms seen at once from the entrance, must have had a very imposing effect; you beheld at once the hall richly paved and painted the tablinum the graceful peristyle, and (if the house extended farther) the opposite banquet-room and the garden, which closed the view with some gushing fount, or marble statue.

(Bulwer's Last days of Pompeii.)

The day closed as I was wandering about the Dutchess's mansion, surprised at the slovenly neglect of the furniture, not an article of which has been moved out of the reach of dust, scaffoldings, the exhalations of paint, and the still more pestilential exhalation of garlick-eatingworkmen. » (Beckford's Italy.)

Orestes, Acamus, in front appear,

And Oenomaus and Thoon close the rear.

(Pope.)

In the simplicity of the savage state, when man is not oppressed with labour, or enervated by luxury, or disquieted with care, we are apt to imagine that this life will flow on almost untroubled by disease or suffering, until his days be terminated, in extreme old age, by the gradual decays of nature. (Robertson's Hist. of America.)

Johnson's laborious and distinguished career terminated in 1783, when virtue was deprived of a steady supporter, society of a brilliant ornament, and literature of a successful cultivator.

(W. Scott's Lives.)

The work (Rasselas) can scarce be termed a narrative, being in a great measure void of incident; it is rather a set of moral dialogues on the various vicissitudes of human life, its follies, its fears, its hopes, and its wishes, and the disappointment in which all terminate.

(W. Scott's Lives.)

1. ENORMOUS, 2. HUGE, 3. IMMENSE, 4. VAST.

1. Ungeheuer; 2. sehr groß, ungeheuer; 3. unermeßlich, unendlich; 4. weit ausgedehnt, sehr groß, ungeheuer.

Die ersten beiden Wörter sind besonders auf Größe anwendbar; die beiden legten auf Ausdehnung, Quantität und Zahl. Enormous bezeichnet mehr als huge, und ebenso mehr als vast: enormous, außer jedem Verhältniß, übertrifft in sehr hohem Grade jeden gewöhnlichen Maaßstab; huge ist nur groß im superlativen Grade, nur beziehlich groß. Immense übersteigt jede Berechnung; vast umfaßt nur ein sehr großes, oder ungewöhnliches Uebermaaß. Alle diese Eigenschaftswörter, mit Ausnahme des huge, werden auch auf moralische Gegenstände bezogen und behalten dieselben Bedeutungen; huge kommt indeß auch bei manchem Dichter in diesem Sinne vor.

Some animals may be made enormously fat by a particular mode of feeding; to one who has seen nothing but level ground, common hills will appear to be huge mountains. A huge animal, a huge monster, a huge mass, a huge size, a huge bulk. The distance between the earth and the sun may be said to be immense; the distance between the poles is vast. An enormous waste, an enormous sum; an immense difference, an immense sum, that scarcely admits of calculation, a vast sun, which rises very high in calculation. The national debt of England has risen to an enormous amount: the revolutionary war was attended with an immense loss of blood and treasure to the different nations of Europe: there are individuals who, while they are expending vast sums on their own gratifications, refuse to contribute any thing to the relief of the necessitous.

The Thracian Acamus his falchion found,

And hew'd the enormous giant to the ground.

(Pope.)

Poor gentleman! he will soon be out of his sufferings, said the Nurse; and she herewith took a huge pinch of snuff.

With them rose

(Bulwer's Stud.)

A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms
Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array,
Of depth immeasurable.

(Milton's P. L.)

Round he throws his baleful eyes,
That witness'd huge affliction and dismay,
Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.

Then, tired to watch the current's play,
He turned his weary eyes away,
To where the bank opposing shewed

(Milton's P. L.)

Its huge, square cliffs through shaggy wood.

(W. Scott's Rokeby.)

Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms

Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at large,
Though without number still amidst the hall

Of that infernal court.

(Milton's P. L.)

(Pope.)

Well was the crime, and well the vengeance sparr'd,
E'en power immense had found such battle hard.

I own Versailles appeared to me rather vast than beautiful; and, after having seen the exact proportions of the italian buildings, I thought the irregularity of it shocking. (Montague's Lett.)

The vast space of waters that separates the Hemispheres is like a blank page in existence.

(W. Irving's Sketch B.)

1. ENOUGH, 2. SUFFICIENT.

1. Genug;

2. genug, hinreichend, hinlänglich.

Wenn unsere Wünsche befriedigt sind, wird enough angewendet, sufficient, wenn wir das Nöthige haben.

We may frequently have sufficiency when we have not enough. A greedy man has never enough. Children and animals never have enough food, nor the miser enough money. It is requisite to allow sufficient time for every thing that is to be done, it we wish it to be done well. The time present seldom affords sufficient employment for the mind of man. (Addison.)

I cannot sufficiently thank you for your praise; and now, waving myself, let me talk to you of the Prince Regent. (Byron's Lett.)

1. ERROR, 2. MISTAKE, 3. BLUNDER. 1. Irrthum, Versehen; 2. Mißbegriff, Irrthum, Versehen; 3. Versehen, Mißbegriff, Schnitzer, Fehler.

Das erste Hauptwort ist der allgemeine, unbegränzte Ausdruck für Abweichung von Wahrheit und Regel; das zweite ist, eine Person oder eine Sache für die andere nehmen, das dritte, eine Folge von uebereilung, Voreiligkeit, ist oft die Handlung des Eingebildeten und Unwissenden.

We have errors of judgment, of calculation, of the head and of the heart. Error is the lot of humanity. Into whatever we attempt to do or think, error will be sure to creep. Children and careless people are most apt to make mistakes. Blunders are frequently so ridiculous as only to excite laughter. Blunderers are not always to be set right. Thus do errors, like comets, come and go, while Truth, like the sun, remains always stationary. (Th. Moor's Trav.)

Error is but a view of some facts instead of a survey of all.

(Bulw. Stud.) Idolatry may be looked upon as an error arising from mistaken devotion. (Addison.)

It happened that the king himself passed through the gallery during this debate, and, smiling at the mistake of the dervise, asked him how he could possibly be so dull as not to distinguish a palace from a caravansary. (Addison.)

Pope allows that Dennis had detected one of those blunders which are called bulls. (Johnson.)

Debate, that great winnower of the corn from the chaff, is denied him; the student hears of him as of an authority, reads him without a guide, imbibes his errors, and retails them as a proof of his learning. In a word, the dull writer does not attract to wisdom those indisposed to follow it and to those who are disposed he bequeaths as good a chance of inheriting a blunder as a truth. (Bulwer's Stud.)

But the most known instance of this kind is the true history of Gill Blas, where the inimitable biographer hath made a notorious blunder in the country of Dr. Sangrado, who used his patients as a vintner does his wine vessels, by letting out their blood, and filling them up with water. (Fielding's J. Andrews.)

Mahomed was making one of his usual left-handed blunders.
(Irving's Alhambra.)

As I believe that what I have mentioned gave rise to the opinion of Shakspeare's want of learning; so what has continued it down to us may have been the many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his works. (Pope's Pref.)

It may be here noticed, that the leading incident of the piece was borrowed from a blunder of the author himself, who, while travelling in Ireland, actually mistook a gentleman's residence for an inn.

(W. Scott's Lives.)

1. ERROR,

1. Irrthum, Versehen;

2. FAULT.

2. Fehler, Vergehen, Versehen.

Das erste betrifft die Handlung, es kann in dem Urtheil oder in dem Betragen liegen, das zweite betrifft den Handelnden und liegt in dem Willen oder in der Absicht.

The errors of youth must be treated with indulgence: it is an error to use intemperate language at any time. The faults of youth must on all accounts be corrected. It is a fault in the temper of some persons that they cannot restrain their anger.

I saw with indignation, the errors of a mind that only sought applause from others; that easiness of disposition, which, though inclin'd to the right, had no courage to condemn the wrong.

(Goldsmith's Good-nat. man.)

Bold is the task when subjects, grown too wise,
Instruct a monarch where his error lies.

(Pope.)

Leave to thy foes these errors and these ills; To nature just, their cause and cure explore. (Young's Night Thoughts.) Other faults are not under the wife's jurisdiction, and should if possible escape her observation, but jealousy calls upon her particularly for its cure. (Addison.)

But if I shortly convince you of his modesty, that he has only the faults that will pass off with time, and the virtues that will improve with age, I hope you'll forgive him.

(Goldsmith's Stoops to conquer.)

1. To ESCAPE, 2. ELUDE, 3. EVADE. 1. Fliehen, vermeiden, entgehen, entrinnen, entkommen; 2. abwenden; entgehen; 3. ausweichen, vermeiden, entwischen, entgehen.

Das erste Zeitwort bezeichnet keine Mittel, wodurch die Handlung bewirkt worden, aber das zweite und dritte bestimmt die Anstrengungen oder Bemühungen, welche der Fliehende selbst anwendet, und die oft Gewandtheit oder List begleitet. Elude besteht größtentheils aus Handlungen; evade wird sowohl durch Handlungen, als durch Worte bewirkt.

We escape from danger, we escape notice, our escapes are often