f all.
1982
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Use.=

These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
1983
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

==V.==

=Vacuity.=

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
1984
DRYDEN: _Cym. and Iph.,_ Line 84.

=Valentine.=

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day;
But by their flight I never can divine
When I shall couple with my Valentine.
1985
HERRICK: _Aph. To His Valentine._

=Valor.=

Fear to do base unworthy things is valor;
If they be done to us, to suffer them,
Is valor too.
1986
BEN JONSON: _New Inn,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Vanity.=

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
1987
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

What dotage will not Vanity maintain?
What web too weak to catch a modern brain?
1988
COWPER: _Expostulation,_ Line 630.

=Vapor.=

A wing vapor melting in a tear.
1989
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xix., Line 143.

=Variety.=

Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavor.
1990
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. ii., Line 606.

=Vault.=

Heaven's ebon vault
Studded with stars unutterably bright.
1991
SHELLEY: _Queen Mab._

=Vengeance.=

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
1992
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iv.

=Venice.=

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs,
A palace and a prison on each hand.
1993
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 1.

In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more,
And silent rows the songless gondolier.
1994
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 3.

=Venus.=

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
1995
POPE: _Wife of Bath, Her Prologue,_ Line 369.

=Verse.=

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme.
1996
POPE: Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings.
1997
RICHARD GIFFORD: _Contemplation._

=Vice.=

There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
1998
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments,
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
1999
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 760.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but