ayer.
648
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxxii., St. 1.

The bright black eye, the melting blue,--
I cannot choose between the two.
649
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _The Dilemma._

These poor eyes, you called, I ween,
"Sweetest eyes were ever seen."
650
MRS. BROWNING: _Catarina to Camoens._

Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,
And all went merry as a marriage bell.
651
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 21.

==F.==

=Fabric.=

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose, like an exhalation.
652
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 710.

=Face.=

Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men
May read strange matters.
653
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world.
Saints only have such faces.
654
LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. ii., 6.

Can't I another's face commend,
And to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lowers,
As if _her_ merit lessen'd _yours_?
655
MOORE: _The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat,_ Fable ix.

Behind a frowning providence
He hides a shining face.
656
COWPER: _Light Shining out of Darkness._

=Fair.=

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
657
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.
658
GEORGE CHAPMAN: _All Fools,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Fairies.=

This is the fairy land; O spite of spites,
We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites.
659
SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Faith.=

If faith produce no works, I see
That faith is not a living tree.
660
HANNAH MORE: _Dan and Jane._

Whose faith, has centre everywhere,
Nor cares to fix itself to form.
661
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxxiii., St. 1.

'Tis hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.
662
WORDSWORTH: _Weak is the Will of Man._

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
663
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iii., Line 303.

=Fall.=

He that is down, needs fear no fall.
664
BUNYAN: _The Author's Way of Sending forth his
Second Part of the Pilgrim,_ Pt. ii.

=Falsity.=

As false
As air, as water, as wind, as sandy earth;
As fo