260 FAME - NOTORIETY. FAME NOTORIETY. 1. Death makes no conquest of this conqueror, For now he lives in fame though not in life. 2. Talk not to me of fond renown, the rude, 3. I courted fame but as a spur to brave And honest deeds; and who despises fame, SHAKSPEARE. 4. Knows he that mankind praise against their will, Is so much tickled from not hearing all? CROWN. MALLET. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 5. They, spider-like, spin out their precious all, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. With fame, in just proportion, envy grows; The man that makes a character, makes foes. 7. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 8. The whole amount of that enormous fame, YOUNG. MILTON. POPE'S Essay on Man. 9. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, even before our death. POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they go. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. A youth to fame, ere yet to manhood, known. 12. Absurd! to think to overreach the grave, And from the wreck of names to rescue ours: POPE. BLAIR'S Grave. 13. He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. DR. JOHNSON. 14. And glory long has made the sages smile; Than on the name a person leaves behind. BYRON'S Don Juan. 15. What is the end of fame? "Tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour. 16. And blaze with guilty glare thro' future time, BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 17. Far dearer the grave or the prison, Than the trophies of all who have risen MOORE. 20. Lives of great men all remind us 21. We tell thy doom without a sigh, SANDS. H. W. LONGfellow. For thou art freedom's now, and fame's One of the few, th' immortal names That were not born to die! FITZ-GREEN HALLECK. FANCY-IMAGINATION. 1. Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand, 2. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 3. This busy power is working day and night; DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 4. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, DR. JOHNSON, on Shakspeare. 5. Do what he will, he cannot realize 6. Pleasant at noon, beside the vocal brook, To lie one down and watch the floating clouds, 7. Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, ROGERS. SOUTHEY. SCOTT'S Rokeby. 8. Where Fancy halted, weary in her flight, POLLOK'S Course of Time. 9. The beings of the mind are not of clay, Essentially immortal, they create And more belov'd existence. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 10. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars Till he had peopled them with beings bright BYRON'S Childe Harold. 264 11. 12. 13. FANCY - FAREWELL, &c. -Immortal dreams, that could beguile The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. And dream'd again The visions which arise without a sleep. BYRON'S Giaour. BYRON'S Lament of Tasso. Oh! that I were The viewless spirit of a lovely sound, BYRON'S Manfred. 14. One of those passing rainbow dreams MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 15. Above, below, in ocean and in sky, Thy fairy worlds, Imagination, lie. 16. 'Mid earthly scenes forgotten or unknown, Lives in ideal worlds, and wanders there alone. CAMPBELL. CARLOS WILCOX. 17. I give you a legend from Fancy's own sketch, Tho', I warn you, he's given to fibbing-the wretch! S. G. GOODRICH. |