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...oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : COMMENTARY. Ver. 237. What's famef] IV. With regard to FAME, that still more fantastic blessing,...

...part, This is that incense of the heart, Whose fragrance smells to Heav'n. All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart ; One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true...

...oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true...

...deserve, we are conscious of a sort of fraud or imposition on the world. " All fame is foreign but of true desert, — Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart." duct is always enhanced, in the opinion of mankind, when it is discovered in the more private situations...

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...oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years outweighs 255 Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas; And more...

...oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high, to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years out-weighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true...