 me live, or die unknown: Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " THIS poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination, yet bordering often on the most ideal and capricious extravagance. The poet, in a vision, sees a temple of glass; ' In which...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Page 92by Alexander Pope - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 310 pages
...deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny ; for it is destiny. LONG FELLOW. Unblemished let me live, or die unknown : Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none. POPE. With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. FATE. Alas ! how easily things go wrong ! A sigh too... | |
 | William Milford Giffin - 1883 - 64 pages
...others rather than himself." —SIR WALTER SCOTT, Scotland, 1771. (Waverley Novels.) "Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown: Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!" —ALEXANDER POPE, London, 1688. (Essay on Man.) " Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1885 - 374 pages
...heav'n! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; Oh! grant an honest fame, or grant me none.' P. 223, 1. 2. Bentley. Richard Bentley (1662-1742), a great classical scholar, who distinguished himself... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 104 pages
...indeed. 6. Teach thy necessity to reason thus There is no virtue like necessity. 7. Unblemished let me live, or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none. 8. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again The eternal years of God are hers But Error wounded writhes... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 106 pages
...indeed. 6. Teach thy necessity to reason thus There is no virtue like necessity. 7. Unblemished let me live, or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none. 8. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again The eternal years of God are hers But Error wounded writhes... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 332 pages
...indeed. 6. Teach thy necessity to reason thus There is no virtue like necessity. 7. Unblemished let me live, or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none. 8. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again The eternal years of God are hers But Error wounded writhes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 572 pages
...heav'n ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise, Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me none! from a passage in another part of the third book, place ; " and the book ends abruptly, with hi> 1... | |
 | Samuel Briggs, Nathaniel Ames - 1891 - 534 pages
...Heav'n! to scorn the guilty Bays. Drive from my Breast that wretched Lust of Praise, Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown. Oh, grant an honest Fame, or grant me none. INTERLINED WISDOM AND HUMOUR. •• JANUARY. Sol in Aquarius, now portends That Grandfather Cronos... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1891 - 326 pages
...Heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; Unblemished let me live, or die unknown; Oh ! grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS. DONE BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS YOUTH. L CHAUCER. £OMEN ben fall of Ragerie,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...heav'n! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise, Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me none! from a passage in another part of the third book, place;" and the book ends abruptly, with hi> 1 While... | |
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