 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...more conspicuous by their elevation. “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; Her for the fool, the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 348 pages
...length."-S. Diary, 1881. Still let them pause — ah ! little do they knowThat what to them seem'd Vice might be but Woe. ( ] ) Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fix'd for ever to detract or praise; Repose denies her requienilto his name, And Folly loves the martyrdom... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 308 pages
...what to them scem'd Vice might be but Woe.i 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 foe — the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 532 pages
...fate on whom the public gaze That what to them seetu'd Vice might be but Woe. (3) 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 foe—the fool—the... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 598 pages
...well and feelingly 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 - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...track the steps of glory to the grave." " 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; Her for the fool, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1841 - 464 pages
...track the steps of glory to the grave." " 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; Her for the fool, the... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1842 - 1064 pages
...Reginald in a feeling and spirited 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 martyrdom of fame. The secret enemy, whose sleepless eye Stands sentinel, accuser, judge, and spy, The foe, the fool,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...what to them seem'd vice might be but wo. Hard is his fate on whom the public gaze Is fix'd forevcr/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 foe, the fool, the... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...v m seemed vice/ might be but w~o ! Hard is AzV-fate/ on whom the public ga'ze/ Is fixed for eVer/ to detra'ct or pr'aise; Repose den'ies/ her requiem to his na'me, And Folly lov es/ the mar'tyrdom of fa'me. The secret en'emy, whose sleepless e'ye Stands sen'tinel — acc'user... | |
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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. 
