Hark! how the gentle echo from her cell
Talks through the cliffs, and murmuring o'er the stream
Repeats the accents, 'we shall part no more.'

ECONOMY.

A Yorkshire squire, an epicure well known,
Set forth to spend his winter months in town,
But heard the dev'lish price of beef and pork,
Stopp'd short at Highgate, gate, and return'd to York.

Akenside.

Martial, iii. 14 (R. Graves).

EDUCATION-see Instruction, Knowledge, Learning.

Learning by study must be won;
'Twas ne'er entail'd from sire to son.

'Tis education forms the common mind;

Gay, Fable II. 2.

Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. Pope, M.E. 11. 149.

A little learning is a dangerous thing,
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring,
For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
But drinking largely sobers us again.

Pope, Е. С. 11. 15.

16. 111 15.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe the enliv'ning spirit, and to fix

The generous purpose in the glowing breast. Thomson, Sp.1149.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates;

Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. Young, N.T.

Oh ye, who teach th' ingenuous youth of nations-
Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain-

I pray ye flog them upon all occasions;

It mends their morals: never mind the pain. Byron, D. J. 11. 1.

She taught the child to read, and taught so well,

That she herself, by teaching, learn'd to spell.

EFFEMINACY.

Byron, Sketch from Private Life.

Go! let thy less than woman's hand
Assume the distaff, not the brand.

Byron, Bride of A.

EGG-ELOQUENCE.

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EGG.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. Pope, Sa. 2, 11. 85.

ELEGANCE.

Polite with candour, elegant in ease;

Trifles themselves are elegant in him.

ELOPEMENT.

Pope.

When once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon. Moore, Ill Omens.

ELOQUENCE-see Rhetoric.

Aged ears play truant at his tales,

And younger hearings are quite ravished;

So sweet and voluble is his discourse. Sh. Love's L. L. II. 1.

When he speaks,

The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,

Sh. Hen. v. 1. 1.

And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,
To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences.
Men are more eloquent than women made,
But women are more powerful to persuade. Randolph, Amyr.

And wheresoe'er the subject's best, the sense
Is better'd by the speaker's eloquence.

His tongue

Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.

Bp. King.

Milton, P. L. 11. 113.

Your words are like the notes of dying swans,
Too sweet to last!

Dryden, All for Love.

When he spoke, what tender words he us'd! softly, that, like flakes of feather'd snow,

So

Dryden, Spanish Friar.

They melted as they fell.
Thou hast a tongue to charm the wildest tempers;
Herdsould forget to graze, and savage beasts
Stand still and lose their fierceness but to hear thee;

As if they had reflection, and by reder

Forsook

Rowe, Tamerlane.

a less enjoyment for a greater. Thy words, like music, every breast controul, Steal through the air, and win upon the soul.

Words

Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

are like leaves, and where they most abound,

Oh! speak that again!

Pope.

Pope, E. C. 11. 309.

Sweet as the syren's tongue those accents fall,
And charm me to my ruin.

Southern, Royal Brother.

M

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ELOQUENCE-EMIGRATION.

ELOQUENCE-continued.

Now with fine phrase, and foppery of tongue,
More graceful action, and a smoother tone,

That orator of fable, and fair face,

Will steal on your bribed hearts.

Oft the hours

Young, Brothers, 3.

From morn to eve have stol'n unmask'd away,

While mute attention hung upon his lips. Akenside, Pl. Im. 2.

His words of learned length and thundering sound

Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;

And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew,

That one small head should carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Deserted Village.

J. H. Clinch (Am.).

Eloquence that charms and burns,

Startles, soothes, and wins, by turns.

The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice,

An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. Byron, D. J. xv.13.

Thy words had such a melting flow,

And spoke of truth so sweetly well,

They dropped like heaven's serenest snow,

And all was brightness where they fell.

EMBARRASSMENT.

He scratch'd his ear, th' infallible resource
To which embarrass'd people have recourse.

EMBRACING.

Eternal comfort's in thy arms :

To lean thus on thy breast is softer ease

T. Moore.

Byron, D. J.

Than downy pillows, deck'd with leaves of roses. Otway, Or.

EMIGRATION-see Exile.

All places, that the eye of heaven visits,

Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:

Teach thy necessity to reason thus;

There is no virtue like necessity.

Sh. Ric. II. 1. 3.

Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail,

That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale,

Downward they move, a melancholy band,

Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.

Let us depart! the universal sun

Goldsmith, Deserted Village.

Confines not to one land his blessed beams;
Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed
The winds on some ungenial soil have cast,
There, where he cannot prosper.

Southey, Madoc.

EMINENCE-ENGLAND.

EMINENCE-see Envy, Fame, Superiority.

He who ascends to mountain tops shall find

The loftiest peaks most wrapp'd in clouds and snow;

He who surpasses or subdues mankind,

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Must look down on the hate of those below. Byron, Ch.H. 111. 45.

EMPTINESS-see Ignorance, Shallowness.

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,

As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope, Ep. to Arb.

EMULATION.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize,

Appears a hero in our eyes.

END-see Futurity.

O that a man might know

Swift, Cad. and Van.

The end of this day's business, ere it come,

But it sufficeth that the day will end,

And then the end is known.

ENDURANCE-see Perseverance.

He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer

The wo

worst that man can breathe;

Sh. Jul. C. v. 1.

and make his wrongs

His outsides; wear them like his raiment, carelessly;

And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,

To bring it into danger.

'Tis not now who's stout and bold?

But who bears hunger best, and cold?

And he's Who

approv'd the most deserving,

longest

Sh. Timon, III. 5.

can hold out at starving. Butler, Hud. 3.111. 353.

There is strength

Deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck
But little till the shafts of heaven have pierced
Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent
Before her gems are found.

ENERGY-see Decision, Promptitude.
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing so hard, but search will find

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

ENGLAND It is

Mrs. Hemans.

it out. Herrick, Aph.24.

Longfellow, Psalm of Life.

most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe:
But that defences, musters, preparations,
For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,
Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,
As were a war in expectation.

O England!-model to thy inward greatness,

Like little body with a mighty heart,

What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,

Were all thy children kind and natural! Sh. Hen. V. II. cho.

This England never did, nor never shall,

Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,

But when it first did help to wound itself.

Come the corners of the world in arms,

And we shall shock them: nought shall make us rue,

If England to itself do rest but true.

England is safe, if true within itself.
'Tis better using France, than trusting France.

Sh. K. John, v. 7.

Sh. Hen. VI. 2, Iv. 1.

Sh. Ric. II. II. 1.

England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious surge
Of watery Neptune.

This precious stone set in the siver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands;

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. 16.11.1.

Hath Britain all the sun that shines ? Day, Night,

Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume

Our Britain seems as of it, but not in't;

In a great pool, a swan's nest.

Prithee think

There's livers out of Britain.

Sh. Cymb. III. 4.

Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!

Would I had never trod this English earth,

Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.

Whether this portion of the world were rent,

By the rude ocean, from the continent,

Or thus created; it was sure design'd

Sh. H. VIII. 111. 1.

To be the sacred refuge of mankind. Waller, to the Protector.

Island of bliss! amid the subject seas,

That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,

At once the wonder, terror and delight

Of distant nations: whose remotest shores

Can soon be shaken by the naval arm;

Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults

Baffling, as thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave. Thomson, Sum.