=Eclipse.=

The sun, ... 
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs.
607
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. i., Line 597.

=Eden.=

They hand in hand, with wand’ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. 608 MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. xii., Line 645.

=Education.=

’Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclin’d. 609 POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 149.

=Eloquence.=

His tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.
610
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. ii., Line 113.

=Emerson.=

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. 611 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:  A Fable for Critics.

=Eminence.=

He who ascends to mountain tops shall find
The loftiest peaks most wrapp’d in clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
612
BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto iii., St. 45.

=Empire.=

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway’d,
  Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
613
GRAY:  Elegy, St. 12.

=End.=

Life’s but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things,—­God. 614 BAILEY:  Festus, Sc. A Country Town.

=Endurance.=

’Tis not now who’s stout and bold? 
But who bears hunger best, and cold? 
And he’s approv’d the most deserving,
Who longest can hold out at starving.
615
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 353.

=England.=

O England!—­model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty heart,—­
What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural!
616
SHAKS.:  Henry V., Act i., Chorus.

=Enmity.=

’Tis death to me to be at enmity;
I hate it, and desire all good men’s love.
617
SHAKS.:  Richard III., Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Ensign.=

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! 
  Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
  That banner in the sky.
618
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:  Old Ironside.

=Enthusiasm.=

Rash enthusiasm, in good society
Were nothing but a moral inebriety.
619
BYRON:  Don Juan, Canto xiii., Line 35.

=Envy.=

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise,
For envy is a kind of praise.
620
GAY:  Fables, Pt. i., Fable 44.

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. 621 POPE:  E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 266.