 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...; 250 When what t' 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... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1848 - 648 pages
...immortal bard of Twickenham ; yet do I agree with what the poet elsewhere says, that '• ' All fame is foreign but of true desert — Plays round the head, but comes not to the heartOne self-approving hour whole years outweighs, Of stupid stiircrs and of loud hurras ; And... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...grave ; When what to 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1849 - 450 pages
...know we do not 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...grave ; When what t'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: les autres ; objet au-delà de nous, qui l'est même avant notre mort. On 113 jouit precisément... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Rlaming. 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 ; Contempt.... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...grave ; When what t' oblivion better were resign'd, Is hung on high to poison half mankind. All fame * * * the heart : 3ne self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...Her praise or censure cannot us concern, Nor ever penetrate the silent urn. Soame Jennins. All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head, but comes not near the heart; One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...grave, 250 When what t' 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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...grave, 250 When what t' 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-approring hour whole years out-weighs Of stupid starcrs, and of loud huzzas ;... | |
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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... 
