 | 1839 - 608 pagina’s
...said ' Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze ; Is fixed for ever to detract and praise : Repose denies her requiem to his name, And folly loves the martyrdom of fame.' It is easy to mark out faults— to observe the spots on the sun's disk — the wavering wing of the... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 598 pagina’s
...said ' Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze ; Is fixed for ever to detract and praise : Repose denies her requiem to his name, And folly loves the martyrdom of fame.' It is easy to mark out faults—to observe the spots on the sun's disk—the wavering wing of the soaring... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pagina’s
...martyrdom of Fame: The secret enemy, whose sleepless eye Stands sentinel, accuser, judge and spy; Her for the fool, the jealous and the vain, The envious, who...deprave, Who track the steps of glory to the grave." For ourselves, amid the various attendants on the triumph of genius, we would far rather be the soldier... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1842 - 1064 pagina’s
...speech : " Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fixed for ever to detract or praise : Repose denies her requiem to his name, And Folly loves the...jealous, and the vain, The envious, who but breathe in other's pain, 'Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of Glory to the grave,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pagina’s
...be but Woe. Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fix'd for ever to detract or praise ; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And Folly loves the...Stands sentinel — accuser — judge — and spy, * See Fox, Burke, and Pitt's eulogy on Mr. Sheridan's speech on riie charges exhibited against Mr.... | |
 | 1844 - 888 pagina’s
...the certainty of the shower of arrows, many of them poisoned arrows, against which he must stand ? " The secret enemy, whose sleepless eye Stands sentinel,...jealous^ and the vain ; The envious, who but breathe in other's pain ; Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of Glory to the grave,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...might be but wo. Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fix'd forever,to detract or praise; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And folly loves the...the fool, the jealous, and the vain, The envious who hut breathe in other's pain, Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of glory... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pagina’s
...fixed for e\er/ to detra'ct or pr'aise ; Repose denies/ her requiem to his na'me, And Folly lov es/ the mar'tyrdom of fa'me. The secret en'emy, whose...— and the va'in, The en"vious, who but breathe in otKers'-pam ; Behold the ho'st ! delighting to deprave', ;i' Who track the steps of Glo'ry to the gra"ve,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pagina’s
...might be but wo. Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fix'd forever to detract or praise; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And folly loves the...jealous, and the vain, The envious who but breathe in other's pain, Behold the host ! delighting to deprave, Who track the steps of glory to the grave, Watch... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pagina’s
...for ever to detract or praise ; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And folly loves the martrydom of Fame. The secret enemy whose sleepless eye Stands...deprave, Who track the steps of Glory to the grave, _ Watch every fault that daring Genius owes Half to the ardour which its birth bestows, Distort the... | |
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Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fix'd for ever to detract or praise ; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. The secret enemy whose sleepless eye Stands sentinel — accuser — judge — and spy, The... 
