FORTUNE. FOUNDLING. FORTUNE and HAPPINESS-Distinct With hard and savage eye she views the food, Ideas. What avails all the pomp and parade of life which appear abroad, if, when we shift the gaudy flattering scene, the man is unhappy where happiness must begin at home! Whatever ingredients of bliss Providence may have poured into his cup, domestic misfortunes will render the whole composition distasteful. Fortune and happiness are two very distinct ideas; however some who have a false idea of life and a wrongness of thinking may confound them. Seed. FORTUNE-TELLER-The. A savage wilderness round him hung, As of a dweller out of doors; In his whole figure, and his mien A savage character was seen, Of mountain and of dreary moors. Wordsworth. Again, the country was enclosed, a wide On ragged rug, just borrow'd from the bed, Cursing his tardy aid; her mother there And grudging, pinches their intruding brood. Must wildly wander each unpractised cheat; What shame and grief, what punishment and pain, Sport of fierce passions, must each child sustain Ere they, like him, approach their latter end, Without a hope, a comfort, or a friend. Crabbe. FORTUNE-TELLER-Life of the. I see a column of slow-rising smoke The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Such squalid sloth to honourable toil! Cowper FORTUNE-TELLING-Influence of. Of many who say they do not believe in fortune-telling, I have known few on whom it Mackenzie. had not a very sensible effect. FOUNDLING-A. What extenuation is not authorized by the position of a foundling! Without parents, or friends, or early teachers to direct him, his little bark set adrift on the ocean of life, to take its chance among the rude billows and breakers, without one friendly hand stretched forth to steer or save it! The name of "found ling" comprehends an apology for much, very much, that is wrong in after-life. Prescott. FOUNTAIN-A. It was a well Of whitest marble, white as from the quarry ; roots Of aged trees-discovering where it ran Twas sweet of yore to see it play FOUNTAIN-in the Desert. Rogers. not to be compelled to take your moral potions. Massinger. FREEDOM-Existing with Foreknow ledge. Man (ingenious to contrive his woe. The property of things? Is aught thou seest For, O! her softest breath, that might not The summer gossamer tremulous on its throne, Byron. FREEDOM-the Use of all Human This sycamore, oft musical with bees,- May all its aged boughs o'er-canopy The small round basin, which this jutting stone Keeps pure from falling leaves! Long may the spring, Quietly as a sleeping infant's breath, Send up cold waters to the traveller With soft and even pulse! Nor ever cease Nor wrinkles the smooth surface of the fount, FRANCE-in Olden Times. Coleridge. Powers. For what is freedom, but the unfettered use But chiefly this, Him first, Him last to view FREEDOM-Spirit of. The greatest glory of a free-born people If with streamy radiance God Had dazzling beamed upon his creatures' eyelids, And shown Himself to their unbandaged view, And with a voice divine to us had spoken, Destroying in our hearts the wondrous balance, (Man ceasing to be man had lost his freedom) Champfort. Our soul would not have struggled with our A monarchy tempered by songs. FREEDOM-in Debate. Byron. Pray you use your freedom, and so far, if it please you, allow me mine to hear you, only senses, And void of freedom what would virtue be? FREE-MEN-Qualities of Who are the free? dim Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. Such I created all th' ethereal powers And spirits, both them who stood, and them who fail'd; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. FREE-WILL-Responsibility of. Their own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Ibid. Grace leads the right way: if you choose the wrong, Take it and perish, but restrain your tongue; Charge not, with light sufficient, and left free, Your wilful suicide on God's decree. Cowper. FRIEND-Character of a. Concerning the man you call your friendtell me, will he weep with you in the hour of distress? Will he faithfully reprove you to your face, for actions for which others are ridiculing or censuring you behind your back? Will he dare to stand forth in your defence, when detraction is secretly aiming its deadly weapons at your reputation? Will he acknowledge you with the same cordiality, and behave to you with the same friendly attention, in the company of your superiors in rank and fortune, as when the claims of pride or vanity do not interfere with those of friendship? If misfortune and losses should oblige you to retire into a walk of life, in which you cannot FRIEND. appear with the same distinction, or entertain your friends with the same liberality as formerly, will he still think himself happy in your society, and, instead of gradually withdrawing himself from an unprofitable connexion, take pleasure in professing himself your friend, and cheerfully assist you to support the burden of your afflictions? When sickness shall call you to retire from the gay and busy scenes of the world, will he follow you into your gloomy retreat, listen with attention to your "tale of symptoms," and minister the balm of consolation to your fainting spirit? And lastly, when death shall burst asunder every earthly tie, will he shed a tear upon your grave, and lodge the dear remembrance of your mutual friendship in his heart, as a treasure never to be resigned? The man who will not do all this, may be your companionyour flatterer-your seducer-but, depend upon it, he is not your friend. Enfield. FRIEND-Conduct towards a. FRIEND-Counsel concerning a. Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns. Feltham FRIEND-Countenance of a. The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. Sir Philip Sidney. FRIEND-A Faithful. Much beautiful, and excellent, and fair A faithful friend is better than gold,-a medicine for misery, an only possession. Burton. As a true friend is the sweetest contentment in the world, so in his qualities he well resembleth honey, the sweetest of all liquors. Nothing is more sweet to the taste, nothing more sharp and cleansing, when it meets with an exulcerate sore. For myself, I know that I have faults; and therefore I care not for that friend that I never smart by. For my friends, I know they cannot be faultless; and therefore as they shall find me sweet in their praises and encouragements, so sharp in their censure. Either let them abide me no friend to their faults or no friend to themselves. Bishop Hall. FRIEND-A Prudent. A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. Addison. FRIEND-a Sun. Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. Richter. FRIEND-Talking with a. FRIEND-A True. A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart. Ennius. Thou mayst be sure that he that will in private tell thee of thy faults, is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike, and doth hazard thy hatred; for there are few men that can endure it, every man for the most part delighting in self-praise, which is one of the most universal follies that bewitcheth mankind. Sir Walter Raleigh. First on thy friend deliberate with thyself; Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen: fixing, fix;Judge before friendship, then confide till death. Young. A friend loveth at all times; and a brother is born for adversity. Solomon. Not so with me--for I had other friends, With nights of riot, and with mornings spent In diff'rent climes and diff'rent ages born, FRIENDS-Choice of. We ought always to make choice of persons of such worth and honour for our friends, that, if they should ever cease to be so, they will not abuse our confidence, nor give us cause to fear them as enemies. Addison. FRIENDS—in Unequal Condition. If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. Sir Walter Raleigh. FRIENDS-not always best Counsellors. A long life may be passed without finding a friend, in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we cau value at once for its justness and sincerity. A weak man, however honest, is not qualified to judge. A man of the world, however penetrating, is not fit to counsel. Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. Friends are tender, and unwilling to give pain; or they are interested, and fearful to offend. Johnson. |