Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise: it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate it in silence. b.

MRS. JAMESON--Memoirs and Essays.
Washington Allston.

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

FAME.

Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Has built thyself a live-long monument. MILTON-Sonnet. On Shakespeare.

1.

Go where glory waits thee;

But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me.

m.

115

MOORE-Go Where Glory Waits Thee.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

น. SCOTT--Old Mortality. Ch. XXXIV. Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire

V.

Too high a fame, when he we serve's away.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act III.
Sc. 1.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror:
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
Richard III. Act III. Sc. 1.

w.

He lives in fame, that died in virtue's cause. x. Titus Andronicus. Act I. Sc. 2. Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register'd upon our brazen tombs. y. Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

2. CHARLES SUMNER-Fame and Glory.

b.

LONGFELLOW--Elizabeth. Pt. IV.

Then in Life's goblet freely press,
The leaves that give it bitterness,
Nor prize the colored waters less,
For in thy darkness and distress

New light and strength they give!
C. LONGFELLOW-The Goblet of Life.

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. d. BULWER-LYTTON- What Will He Do With It? Bk. II.

Ch. XIV.

They only fall, that strive to move,

Or lose, that care to keep.
h. OWEN MEREDITH--The Wanderer.
Bk. III. Futility. St. 6.
Unseen hands delay

The coming of what oft seems close in ken,
And, contrary, the moment, when we say
"Twill never come!" comes on us even then.
i. OWEN MEREDITH-Thomas Muntzer to
Martin Luther. Line 382.
We are what we must
And not what we would be. I know that one
hour

Forestalls not another.

power

Are diverse.

The will and the

POPE--Essay on Man. Ep. I. Line 77.

We met, hand to hand,

We clasped hands close and fast,
As close as oak and ivy stand;
But it is past:

Come day, come night, day comes at last.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI-Twilight
Night. Pt. I. St. 1.

A man whom both the waters and the wind, In that vast tennis-court, hath made the ball For them to play upon.

r. Pericles. Act II. Sc. 1.

As the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.

But, O vain boast

Who can control his fate?

t. Othello. Act V. Sc. 2.

Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms,

And bears his blushing honours thick upon him:

The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; And, when he thinks, good easy man, fall

surely

His greatness is a ripening,--nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

w. Henry VIII.

Act III. Sc. 2.

And see the revolutions of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent
(Weary of solid firmness,) melt itself
Into the sea!

i. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1.

O mighty Cæsar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,

Shrunk to this little measure?

j. Julius Caesar. Act III. Sc. 1.

Our wills, and fates, do so contrary run,
That our devices still are overthrown;
Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our

own.

k. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2.

Some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.

Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2.

There is divinity in odd numbers,

Either in nativity, chance or death.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V.

m.

Sc. 1.

The worst is not worst So long as we can say, This is the worst. R. King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 1.