With thee Certain my resolution is to die ; How can I live without thee, how forego Would never from my heart; no, no, I feel Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 9. FLAG. Who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurl'd FLATTERY. Ibid, b. I. Give me flatt'ry; Flatt'ry, the food of courts! that I may rock him, Beaumont's Rolla. No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't: Use to cajole and soften fools withal. If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't; Otway's Orphan. His fiery temper brooks not opposition, Rowe's Lady Jane Grey, a. 1, s. 1. Minds By nature great, are conscious of their greatness, O flatt'ry! How soon thy smooth insinuating oil Supples the toughest fool. Fenton's Mariamne. Flatt'ry but ill becomes a soldier's mouth; To smooth-tongu'd statesmen, and betraying courtiers. Marsh's Amasis. The firmest purpose of a woman's heart Lillo's Elmerick. Hold, Pharnaces! No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue! Hannah More's Daniel, P. 3. Let me be grateful; but let far from me Be fawning cringe, and false dissembling look, And servile flattery, that harbours oft In courts and gilded roofs. Philips's Cider, b. 1. FLOOD. Meanwhile the south wind rose, and with black wings Wide hovering, all the clouds together drove From under Heav'n; the hills to their supply Vapour, and exhalation dusk and moist, No more was seen. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 11. 106 FLOOD-FLOWERS-FORGIVENESS. Sea cover'd sea, Sea without shore; and in their palaces Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 11. FLOWERS. Went forth among her fruits and flowers, That never will in other climate O flowers, grow, Ibid. b. 8. At ev'n, which I bred up with tender hand FORGIVENESS. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange pow'r Love once possess'd; nor can be easily Repuls'd, without much inward passion felt, And secret sting of amorous remorse. Milton's Samson Agonistes. Great souls forgive not injuries till time Dryden's Duke of Guise. Fall at his feet; cling round his reverend knees; Melt his cold heart, and wake dead Nature in him: Crush him in thy arms; torture him with thy softness: Nor till thy prayers are granted, set him free. Otway's Venice Preserved. Thou shalt not force me from thee; Use me reproachfully, and like a slave: Tread on me, buffet me, heap wrongs on wrongs And raise me to thy arms with dear forgiveness. Ibid. Knows not the god-like glory of forgiving: Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts: Old 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, Than for offence to ask it. Addison's Cato. Thomson's Edmund and Eleonora, a. 5, s. 4. If there be One of you all that ever from my presence He added not, and from her turn'd; but Eve And tresses all disordered, at his feet Forsake me not thus, Adam, witness Heaven I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not, While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Ibid. Ibid. And thus with peaceful words uprais'd her soon. Ibid. Let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blam'd enough elsewhere, but strive In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe. Ibid. FORTUNE. Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Some wit, some wealth, and some wit without wealth; |