Fame. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Fame


Above all Greek, above all Roman fame. Pope.—To Augustus, Book II. Epi. I. Line 26.	1
Above any Greek or Roman name. Dryden.—On Lord Hastings.	2
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be d—d than be not nam’d at all! Wolcot.—Ode IX. Ver. 2. A.D. 1784.	3
Fame is swiftest still when she goes laden With news of mischief.— Thus are we Fortune’s pastimes; one day live Advanc’d to heaven by the people’s breath; The next, hurl’d down into th’ abyss of death. May.—The Old Couple, Act V.	4
He lives in fame that died in virtue’s cause. Shakespeare.—Titus Andronicus, Act I. Scene 2. (Lucius.)	5
Death, courage, honour, makes thy soul to live, Thy soul to live in heaven, thy name in tongues of men. Henry Constable.—Sonnet to Sir Philip Sidney’s soul.	6
Nor fame I slight, nor for her favours call: She comes unlook’d for, if she comes at all. Pope.—Temple of Fame, Line 513.	7
There is who feels for fame, And melts to goodness. Pope.—Epilogue to Satires, Line 65, Dialogue II.	8
[A fine compliment; the expression shewing that fame was but his second passion.—Gilfillan, Editor of the British Poets.]	9
And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. Antoninus.—Riley’s Class. Dict. 552.	10
What is the end of fame? ’Tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper. Byron.—Don Juan, Canto I. Stanza 218.	11