 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...proud shall he. --;Fame. All fume is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the Lead, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour, whole years...exil'd feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. Virtue the guardian of youth. Down the smooth stream of life the stripling darts, Gay as the morn ;... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...us, e'en before our death. All fame is foreign, but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart ; One self-approving hour whole years...huzzas: And more true joy, Marcellus exil'd, feels, Than Cassar, with a Senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell (for you can) what... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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...starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus, exiled, feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies ? Tell... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...high to poison half mankind. All fame is foreign but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but eomes en hardest it besets me. Do not think That I am fearful...soul, As late thy eyes beheld, for thou hast ehang'd Mareellus exil'd feels, Than Cœsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot - 1825 - 814 pages
...this is true pleasure." " So Pope says, sir." " What does he say, Clementina?" "He " He says — ' One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas; .'i .-,;i more true jo; Mnrcellus' bosom feels, Than Caesar with a senate at his heels." "True, Clementina;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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 starera, and of loud huzzas ; And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels, Than Cœsar with a senate at... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...proud shall be. Fame, » All fame is foreign, but of true desert ; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour, whole years...exil'd feels, Than Caesar, with a senate at his heels. Virtue the guardian of youth. Down the smooth stream of life the stripling darts, Gay as the morn ;... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Intellect - 1826 - 522 pages
...without taking into account what they must be when those short and palling enjoyments have ceased, — " One self.approving hour whole years outweighs, Of...feels, Than Caesar, with a senate at his heels."* " The wicked man," says Rousseau, "fears and fl,es himself. He endeavours to be gay, by wandering out... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...fragrance smells to Heaven. All fame is foreign, but of true desert; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : One self-approving hour whole years...huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, Than Csesar with a senate at his heels. Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, They kept the noiseless... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Children's stories - 1903 - 500 pages
...world. Yes, there is ! for, as my Lord John said just now, out of some book or out of his own head — One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas. CURTAIN FALLS FORGIVE AND FORGET IN the neighbourhood of a seaport town in the west of England there... | |
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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 outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud... 
