'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

640 SUCKLING: _Against Fruition._

=Experience.=

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

641 SHAKS.: _Two Gent, of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him sage.

642 GAY, _Fables,_ Pt. i., _The Shepherd and the Philosopher._

=Extremes.=

Extremes in nature equal good produce, Extremes in man concur to general use.

643 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 161.

=Eyes.=

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.

644 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

True eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining thro' them.

645 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., St. 3.

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work us harm, 646 PHOEBE CARY: _Doves' Eyes._

Soul-deep eyes of darkest night.

647 JOAQUIN MILLER: _Californian,_ Pt. iv.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

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.