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... Fame merely Report - Its Emptiness --What True Fame should be • 243 CHAPTER XX . SELF - GODLINESS . A Deep Sermon CONTENTS . xiii.
... Fame merely Report - Its Emptiness --What True Fame should be • 243 CHAPTER XX . SELF - GODLINESS . A Deep Sermon CONTENTS . xiii.
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... fame is , understand those who will commit a crime to be talked about , or who will peril their lives in a dan- gerous performance , because it pleases their egotism that others should stare at them ? Can we comprehend the twisted brain ...
... fame is , understand those who will commit a crime to be talked about , or who will peril their lives in a dan- gerous performance , because it pleases their egotism that others should stare at them ? Can we comprehend the twisted brain ...
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... fame ; And , which is best and happiest yet , all this With God not parted from him , as was fear'd , But favouring and assisting to the end . Nothing is here for tears , nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness , no contempt ...
... fame ; And , which is best and happiest yet , all this With God not parted from him , as was fear'd , But favouring and assisting to the end . Nothing is here for tears , nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness , no contempt ...
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... fame as a woman or a poet ; and Oliver Goldsmith ( who , could he have foreseen his fame and influence , how wise and good he has made thousands , how he has entered into the hearts of young and old , would surely have been content ) ...
... fame as a woman or a poet ; and Oliver Goldsmith ( who , could he have foreseen his fame and influence , how wise and good he has made thousands , how he has entered into the hearts of young and old , would surely have been content ) ...
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... Fame merely Report — Its Emptiness -What True Fame should be . AME is a high - sounding word , which has led many astray . It is , says Milton , ' that last infirmity of noble mind ; ' but whether it be so , or the first health , many ...
... Fame merely Report — Its Emptiness -What True Fame should be . AME is a high - sounding word , which has led many astray . It is , says Milton , ' that last infirmity of noble mind ; ' but whether it be so , or the first health , many ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.