=Eating.=

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

603 SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.

604 BURNS: _Grace before Meat._

=Echo.=

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

605 EMERSON: _May-Day,_ Line 439.

O love, they die, in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

606 TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iii., _Song._

=Eclipse.=

The sun, ...

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

607 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 597.

=Eden.=

They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

608 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. xii., Line 645.

=Education.=

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

609 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. i., Line 149.

=Eloquence.=

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

610 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 113.

=Emerson.=

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

611 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _A Fable for Critics._

=Eminence.=

He who ascends to mountain tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapp'd in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.

612 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 45.

=Empire.=

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

613 GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 12.

=End.=

Life's but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things,--God.

614 BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _A Country Town._

=Endurance.=

'Tis not now who's stout and bold?

But who bears hunger best, and cold?

And he's approv'd the most deserving, Who longest can hold out at starving.

615 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 353.

=England.=

O England!--model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart,-- What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do, Were all thy children kind and natural!

616 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., _Chorus._

=Enmity.=

'Tis death to me to be at enmity; I hate it, and desire all good men's love.

617 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Ensign.=

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!

Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.

618 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Old Ironside._

=Enthusiasm.=

Rash enthusiasm, in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety.

619 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiii., Line 35.