" "Not with bare justice shall your act be crowned," (Said Fame,) "but high above desert renowned: Let fuller notes th' applauding world amaze, And the loud clarion labour in your praise.

we neither claim The praise of merit, nor aspire to fame!

" "And live there men who slight immortal fame?

The hint of this poem is taken from one by Chaucer, called 'The House of Fame.'

For the deck it was their field of fame, And ocean was their grave; Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell, Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep While the stormy winds do blow; While the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.

This day, we hoped, would wrap in conquering flame Greece with her ships, and crown our toils with fame.

The tradition of the older Irish teachers still lingered to direct the young scholar into that path of scriptural interpretation to which he chiefly owed his fame.

There is, or rather I should say there was, a little inn, called Mumps's Hallthat is, being interpreted, Beggar's Hotelnear to Gilsland, which had not then attained its present fame as a Spa.

The master refused to lend it; and indeed he had the fame of being somewhat envious; for not only showed he thus scant courtesy toward Michelangelo, but he also treated his brother likewise, sending him into France when he saw that he was making progress and putting forth great promise; and doing this not so much for any profit to David, as that he might himself remain the first of Florentine painters.

Le Sage and Fielding wrote for their public; and through the great Dr. Johnson put his peevish protest against the fame of the latter, and voted him "a dull dog, sir,a low fellow," yet somehow Harry Fielding has survived in spite of the critic, and Parson Adams is at this minute as real a character, as much loved by us as the old doctor himself.

And so with regard to this question of futurity; if any benevolent being of the present age is imbued with a desire to know what his great-great-grandchild will think of this or that authorof Mr. Dickens especially, whose claims to fame have raised the questionthe only way to settle it is by the ordinary historic method.

It is better, with Mr. Carlyle's leave, to believe that the existence of poetry indicates some universal human hunger, whether after "the beautiful," or after "fame," or after the means of paying butchers' bills, and accepting it as a necessary evil which must be committed, to see that it be committed as well, or at least a little ill, as possible.

" I suppose the men who can analyze their thoughts, and separate the wise impulses from the rash ones, are the people whom the world calls men of destiny and whom history later assigns to its halls of fame.

The French King of Spain there lost his crown and his carriage; the Marshal of France commanding lost his bâton, and the honorable fame which he had won nineteen years before at Fleurus; and the French army lost its artillery, all but one piece, and, what was of more consequence, its honor.

It is the spectacular thing that makes fame for the road, appears in large type in the newspapers, and makes havoc with the time-tables, while the steady-going passenger trains and labouring freights do the work and make the money.

How are thy honours and thy fame betray'd, The property of desperate villains made!

940 First write Bezaliel, whose illustrious name Forestalls our praise, and gives his poet fame.

Thus crown'd with worth, from heights of honour won, Sees all his glories copied in his son, Whose forward fame should every muse engage

and in this rank of fame, Brave Abdael with the first a place must claim.

How tender of the offending young man's fame!

1060 While bees in flowers rejoice, and flowers in dew, While stars and fountains to their course are true; While Judah's throne, and Sion's rock stand fast, The song of Asaph and the fame shall last!

Say, royal Sir! by all your fame in arms, Your praise in peace, and by Urania's charms, 1100 If all your sufferings past so nearly press'd, Or pierced with half so painful grief your breast?

Such toil of fate must build a man of fame, And such, to Israel's crown, the godlike David came.

Yet, to consult his dignity and fame, He should have leave to exercise the name, And hold the cards, while commons play'd the game.

"The spectacle is too rare, of men deserving solid fame while not seeking it.

ONE O'CLOCK.In a letter just received, Mr. GREELEY designates the above report as "a liea liefalse and malicious, and uttered with intent to malign and defame."

"Then alas for thee, poor youthful fool, 'twere better I had left thee to thy death, methinks, for shethis wilful Helen" "My lord," cried Sir Fidelis, "nought will I hear to her defame!" "Fidelis, art a gentle knightbut very young, art fond and foolish, so, loving this light lady, art doubly fool!" "Wherein," saith Fidelis, "wherein, my lord, thou art likewise fool, meseemeth.

Just heaven forbids their words should blot the honor of my name, For pure and faithful is my heart, howe'er my foes defame; And Zaida, lovely Zaida, at a word that did me wrong, Would close her ears in scornful ire and curse the slanderous tongue.

Lest the name that I should give her Should disgrace her or defame her: I will leave papa to name her.

For as he that dischargeth shot into a crowd, or so as not to look about regarding who may stand in the way, is no less guilty of doing mischief, and bound to make satisfaction to them he woundeth, than if he had aimed at some one person: so if we sling our bad words at random, which may light unluckily, and defame somebody, we become slanderers unawares, and before we think on it.

I am assured that she doth assent To my relief, that I should reap the same, If she could frame the means of my content, Keeping herself from danger of defame.

Use you the same, as there may grow Your bliss and mine, mine earl, and that the same Free may abide from danger of defame.

yea, death, and greater grief To see thee die for him, that did defame Thine honour thus, my kingdom, and thy name? GISMUNDA.

It has now been fashionable, for near half a century, to defame and vilify the house of Stuart, and to exalt and magnify the reign of Elizabeth.

But you have said so much to defame my nieces in the eyes of our friends, here assembled, that you must explain yourself more fully.

Mel. Pardon me Sir; my bluntness will be pardoned: You preserve A race of idle people here about you, Eaters, and talkers, to defame the worth Of those that do things worthy; the man that uttered this Had perisht without food, be't who it will, But for this arm that fenc't him from the foe.

A] Facers, and talkers to defame the world.

And some demented hurl aside their gowns, And queens their robes discard and jewelled crowns, And rush upon the streets bereft of shame, Their forms expose, and all the gods defame.

my dear sir, what encouragement is there to an inventor if, after years of toil and anxiety, he has only purchased for himself the pleasure of being a target for every vile fellow to shoot at, and, in proportion as his invention is of public utility, so much the greater effort is to be made to defame, that the robbery may excite the less sympathy?

Now Bandinelli, Vasari's mortal enemy, and the scapegoat for all the sins of his generation among artists, died in 1559, and Vasari felt that he might safely defame his memory.

As for your answer, 'tis but barely urged: You must evince Tradition to be forged; Produce plain proofs: unblemish'd authors use As ancient as those ages they accuse; 'Till when 'tis not sufficient to defame: An old possession stands, 'till elder quits the claim.

Thus our eighth Henry's marriage they defame; They say the schism of beds began the game, Divorcing from the Church to wed the dame: Though largely proved, and by himself profess'd, That conscience, conscience would not let him rest: I mean, not till possess'd of her he loved, And old, uncharming Catherine was removed.

But imprimatur, with a chaplain's name, Is here sufficient licence to defame.

I have come prepared to see all this, to dislike it, but not with stupid narrowness to distrust or defame.

Who will dare to defame you?

I never directly defame,

Many are the Epistles I receive from Ladies extremely afflicted that they lie under the Observation of scandalous People, who love to defame their Neighbours, and make the unjustest Interpretation of innocent and indifferent Actions.

Defame, deprecate, disparage, slander, vilify.

This is our Holy Grail,and this we are bound never to defame, or defile by thought, word or deed.

The important question isdid Grimm know that Rousseau was in reality an honourable man, and, knowing this, did he deliberately defame him in order to drive him out of Madame d'Epinay's affections?