h. HERBERT-The Temple. The Church Porch. St. 38. Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head. i. THOS. HEYWOOD-Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame. j. HOMER-Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 591. Pope's trans. Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame. k. HOMER-Odyssey. Bk. IX. L. 20. Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it feel it, and hate it in silence. p. MRS. JAMESON-Memoirs and Essays. Washington Allston. Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness. MRS. JAMESON-Memoirs and Essays. Washington Allston. զ. GERALD MASSEY-On a Wedding Day. She's all my fancy painted her, 8. WM. MEE-Alice Gray. The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through our passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes. u. t. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. 1. L. 31. When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. POPE-Eloisa to Abelard. L. 225. Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft, contemplative, and kind. V. SCOTT-Rokeby. Canto I. St. 31. To rate her charms, I'd call them heaven; w. |