 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1882 - 586 Seiten
...thousand times engrave upon his inmost consciousness, as with a point of fire, this nohler sentiment : " But if the purchase cost so dear a price, As soothing...Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; O grant an lamest fame, or grant me none." I have endeavored... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...fortune leads the way; Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame ; 520 Then teach me, Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays,...unknown ; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! ' ELOISA TO ABELARD. ARGUMENT. Abclard and Eloisa flourished in the twelfth century ; they were two... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...fortune leads the way; Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame ; 620 Then teach me, Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays,...unknown ; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! ' ELOISA TO ABELARD. ARGUMENT. Abelard and Eloisa flourished in the twelfth century ; they were two... | |
 | 1856 - 780 Seiten
...fortune leads the way; Or, if no basis bear my rising name; But the fallen ruins of another's fame; Then teach me, heaven, to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise. Unblemished let me live, or die unknown; Or grant me honest fame, or grant me none. * De Courcy. Les... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...Fortune leads the way; Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame ; Then teach me, Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; Unblemisb'd let me live, or die unknown: Oh ; grant an honest fame, or grant me none !' MORAL ESSAYS,... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - 1856 - 578 Seiten
...would writers * Take as an example the closing couplet of Pope's Temple of Fame : — " Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " and speakers, both in public and private, pass their responsible existence! For as Talleyrand used... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 Seiten
...fortune leads the way ; Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fall'n ruins of another's fame, Then, teach me, Heaven, to scorn the guilty bays ; Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; Unblemished, let me live, or die unknown ; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " LESSON... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 Seiten
...if no basis bear my rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame, — Then teach me, Hcavta ! to scorn the guilty bays," Drive from my breast that wretched lust ofpraiae ; Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; 0, grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! 3.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 Seiten
...leads the way, — Or if no basis bear my rising name, But the fallen ruins of another's fame, — Then teach me, Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays," Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise ; Unblemished let mo live, or die unknown ; O, grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! , 3. DEATH.... | |
 | 1859 - 316 Seiten
...wants. He deplores the brief and passing glory which most men obtain, and finishes his reply by saying : "Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown : Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none !" But of all his minor pieces the Epistle of Eloisa to Abelard is by far the most perfect, both in... | |
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Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise . Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown : Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! 
