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" 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 92
by Alexander Pope - 1822
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1895 - 600 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! While thus I stood, intent to see and hear 1 , One came, methought, and whisper'd in my ear: What could...
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Life of Pope

Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...heaven ! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise, Unblcmish'd let me live, or die unknown; Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! " 1. 24. [the Pollio, a remarkable prophecy by Virgil which Pope in common with many others considered...
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680-1638

Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 812 pages
...soulis I beseche almyghty god to haue mercy Amen.—CAXTON, WILLI AM^ 1486? The Book of Fame, Epilogue. This poem contains great strokes of Gothic imagination,...often on the most ideal and capricious extravagance. ... Pope has imitated this piece, with his usual elegance of diction and harmony of versification....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1904 - 574 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 \\\: 1 While...
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Nelson's Literature Readers, Book 2

Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 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 ! " 56. THE CORNER OF A MEADOW. The mound follows the curiously winding course of a brook which flows...
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The Oxford high school magazine

Oxford city, high sch. for girls - 1879 - 448 pages
...Heaven! to scorn the guilty bays, Drive from my heart that wretched lust of praise, Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame or grant me none.' Pope's 'Temple of Fame.' LS A SKETCH OF THE DEVOLOPMENT OF THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND DOWN TO THE TIME OF...
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Voltaires Stellung zu Pope

Arthur Hoffmann - 1913 - 110 pages
...kommen. Er bittet den Himmel: „Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise; rnblemished let nie live, or die unknown; Oh! grant an honest fame, or grant me none!" T. of Fame v. 522-524. Voltaire ist bei der Abfassung seiner Tempel von dem Temple of Fame Pop es beeinilusst....
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...call; She comes unlocked for, if she comes at all. POPE—Temple of Fame. L. 513. 21 Unblemish'd let . 125. POPE'S 24 trans. But such as at this day to Indians known In POPE— Temple of Fame. L. 523. 22 Omnia post obi turn fingit majora vetustas: Majus ab exsequiis nomen...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...Heaven! 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! A SACRED ECLOGUE, IN IMITATION OP VIRGIL'S POLLIO [written c. 1712; published, Spectator, 1712] ADVERTISEMENT...
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Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law

Leo Katz - 1996 - 330 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! This then sets the stage for our problem. The question, which the last line of Pope's poem is meant to spark...
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