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Nor Fame I Slight, Nor For Her Favours Call; She Comes Unlooked For If She Comes At All.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call;
She comes unlooked for if she comes at all.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Temple of Fame, Line 513
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As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Prologue to the Satires, Line 127...
For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Love of Fame, Satire vi, Line 190...
Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Temple of Fame, Last line...
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book iii, Line 158...
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue i, Line 136...
But sure the eye of time beholds no name So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 591...
The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xi, Line 394...
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Nor public flame nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!...