A Child This Day Is Born A child this day is born, A child of high renown, Most worthy of a sceptre, A sceptre and a crown Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, sing all we may, Because the King of all kings Was born this blessed day. These tidings shepherds h.
Quotes about renown (16 Quotes)
Her virtues, graced with external gifts,
Do breed love's settled passions in my heart;
And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts
Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,
So am I driven by breath of her renown
Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive
Where I may have fruition of her love.
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung.
Honour, high honour, and renown,
To Hymen, god of every town!
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.
Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown You thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town.
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down; From precedent to predecent.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
To set the cause above renown.