36.
FALLIBLE. 'A fallible being will fail somewhere,' ii. 132.
FAME. 'Fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400;
'He had no fame but from boys who drank with him,' v. 268.
FARTHING CANDLE. 'Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover
to show light at Calais,' i. 454.
FAT. 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,' iv. 313.
FEELING. 'They pay you by feeling,' ii. 95.
FEET. 'We grow to five feet pretty readily, but it is not so easy to
grow to seven,' iii. 316.
FELLOW. 'I look upon myself as a good-humoured fellow,' ii. 362;
'When we see a very foolish _fellow_ we don't know what to think
of _him_,' ii. 54.
FELLOWS. 'They are always telling lies of us old fellows,' iii. 303.
FIFTH. 'I heartily wish, Sir, that I were a fifth,' iv. 312.
_Filosofo. 'Tu sei santo, ma tu non sei filosofo_' (Giannone), iv. 3.
FINE. 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a
passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out' (a
college tutor), ii. 237;
'Were I to have anything fine, it should be very fine,'
iv. 179; v. 364.
FINGERS. 'I e'en tasted Tom's fingers,' ii. 403.
FIRE. 'A man cannot make fire but in proportion as he has fuel,' &c.,
v. 229;
'If it were not for depriving the ladies of the fire I should like
to stand upon the hearth myself,' iv. 304, n. 4;
'Would cry, Fire! Fire! in Noah's flood' (Butler), v. 57, n. 2.
FISHES. 'If a man comes to look for fishes you cannot blame him
if he does not attend to fowls,' v.
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