 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Great Britain - 1816 - 472 pages
...own, Still let them pause—Ah! little do they know That what to them seemed vice might be but woe. Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fixed forever to detract or praise, Repose denies her requiem to his name, And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. But far from us and from... | |
 | Joseph Lancaster - Educators - 1833 - 68 pages
...ridiculed, and abused. The immortal Byron must have felt the following lines when he penned them : " Hard is his fate, on whom the public gaze Is fixed forever to detract or praise ; And folly loves the martyrdom of Fame." That the subject of this address is without faults, no one has... | |
 | 1857 - 476 pages
...resumed his seat. I will detain the company no longer, bat offer, in conclusion— Bisaop DOANE — " Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fixed forever, to detract or praise; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And folly loves the martyrdom of fame. The secret enemy, whose... | |
 | Caroline M. Mersereau - Amusements - 1860 - 370 pages
...many monstrous forms in sleep we see, Which neither were, nor are, nor e'er can be. Dryden 16. G. — Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fixed forever to detract, or praise ; Eepose denies her requiem to his name, And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. The secret enemy, whose... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1877 - 492 pages
...haberdasher of wry faces, a hypocrite who laughs and cries for hire!" Well might Byron exclaim, — " Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fixed forever to detract or praise." A servile fawning on the press, a cowardly fear of its censures, a tremulous sensitiveness to its comments,... | |
 | American literature - 1899 - 556 pages
...farther for it. 383.— Will you kindly tell me where the following lines are found: " Hard is his lot on whom the public gaze Is fixed forever to detract or praise." MF 384. — Will you kindly inform me who is the author of " Keclaimed," a sequel to George Eliot's... | |
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Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fixed forever to detract or praise; Repose denies her requiem to his name, And Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. 