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FIR

Abies

1

A lonely fir-tree is standing
On a northern barren height;
It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift
Cast round it a garment of white.

Heine—Book of Songs. Lyrical Interlude. No. 34.

2

I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky.

Hood—I Remember, I Remember.

3

In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity.

Keats—Stanzas.

4

Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine,
And sends a comfortable heat from far,
Which might supply the sun.

Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. X. L. 1,076.

FIRE

5

Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.

Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. L. 3,881.

(See also Gray, Sidney)

6

Words pregnant with celestial fire.
 | author = Cowper
 | work = Boadicea. 33.
 | seealso = (See also Gray)
 | topic = Fire
 | page = 272
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{{Hoyt quote
 | num = 7
 | text = <poem>E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

Gray—Elegy in u, Country Churchyard. 23. Gray says it was suggested by Petrarch —Sonnet. 169. Same phrase in Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2.

(See also Chaucer)

8

Some heart once pregnant with celestial' fire.

Gray—Elegy. 46.

(See also Cowper)

9

A crooked log makes a straight fire.

Herbert—Jacula Prudentum.

10

Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns.

Herbert—Jacula Prudentum.

11

Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Horace—Epistles. I. 18. 84.

12

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson—The Devil is an Ass. Act I. Sc. 2.

13

How great a matter a little fire kindleth!

James. III. 5.

14

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer—The Martyrdom. P. 523.

15

There can no great smoke arise, but there

must be some fire.

Lyly—Euphues and his Emphabus. P. 153. (Arber's Reprint.)

(See also Persius, Plautus)

16

All the fatt's in the fire.

Marston—What You Will. 1607.

17

Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.

Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 77.

18

They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.

Thomas More—Dial. Bk. II. Ch. I. Folio LXIII. b.

(See also Plato)

Dare pondus idonea fumo.
Fit to give weight to smoke.
Persius—Satires. V. 20.
 | seealso = (See also Lyly)
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 | page = 272
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 | text = <poem>Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Idea in Plato—De Repub. VIII. P. 569. B.
Theodoret—Therap. III. 773.
( See also More)
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 | page = 272
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 | text = <poem>Flamma fumo est proxima.
Flame is very near to smoke.
Plautus—Curculw. Act I. 1. 53.
 | seealso = (See also Lyly)
 | topic = Fire
 | page = 272
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 | text = Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount, on her leaving the Town after the Coronation.
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 | topic = Fire
 | page = 272
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 | text = Heap coals of fire upon his head.
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 | work = Proverbs.
 | place = XXV. 22.
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 | topic = Fire
 | page = 272
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 | text = <poem>Parva ssepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
Quintus Curttus Rufus—De Rebus Geslis
Alexandria Magni. VI. 3. 11.

A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 6.

The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.
Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 22.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 30.

In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.

Sir Phillip Sidney—Arcadia.

(See also Chaucer)