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.

In Strype's edition, 1720, he says, concerning this gate, "Leaving out the fable thereof faming it to be builded by King Belin, a Briton, long before the incarnation of Christ."