Google Books

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 joy Marcellus exil'd...

English Exercises, Adapted to Murray's English Grammar: ... Designed for the ... - Page 27
by Lindley Murray - 1812 - 227 pages
Full view - About this book

The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best ...

Tryon Edwards, C. N. Catrevas - Quotations - 1957 - 838 pages

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

No preview available - About this book

Pope and Human Nature

Geoffrey Tillotson - Human beings in literature - 1958 - 296 pages

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

Snippet view - About this book

Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm--and After

Dwight Macdonald - American literature - 1960 - 612 pages

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

Snippet view - About this book

Scrap Irony

Felicia Lamport - Poetry - 1961 - 136 pages

[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]

Snippet view - About this book

The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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,...heart: One self-approving hour whole years out-weighs 255 Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Caesar with...

Limited preview - About this book