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“Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.”

Soul Body Heaven Middle Fame Graves Verses

Author:John Donne

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

Long Made Earth Fall Water Music Air Figures Fame Moon Rounds Active Graves Decent Strings Strokes Woven Tenors Saturn

Author:Abraham Cowley

“But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.”

People Men Mean Given Church Crime Strange Fame Saint Vices Graves Wicked Sinner Virgins Elders Pious Filthy Chaste Dames

Book:Tales and sketches

Source: Tales and sketches

“Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.”

Fame Glory Graves Reputation Melancholy Coffins Inscriptions

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.”

Men Fame Graves Flames Great Men Temples Ashes Altars

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.”

Thinking May Littles Flower Fame Praise Graves Buried

Author:Charles Caleb Colton