|So may glory from defect arise.|
Robert BrowningDeaf and Dumb.
|The glory dies not, and the grief is past.|
BrydgesOn the Death of Sir Walter Scott.
|Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.|
ByronMonody on the Death of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan.
|Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.|
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
CiceroTusculanarum Disputationum. I. 45.
|Pater sancte, sic transit gloria mundi.|
Holy Father, so passes away the glory of the world.
See Cornelius à LapideCommentaria, 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. Ch. XII. 7. The sentence is used in the Service of the Popes enthronement after the burning of flax. Rite used in the triumphal processions of the Roman republic. According to ZonaræAnnals. (1553).
|* * * glory built|
On selfish principles is shame and guilt.
CowperTable Talk. L. 1.
|The paths of glory lead but to the grave.|
GrayElegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 9.
|The first in glory, as the first in place.|
HomerOdyssey. Bk. XI. L. 441. Popes trans.
|Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru|
Non minus ignotos generosis.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
HoraceSatires. I. 6. 23.
|O quam cito transit gloria mundi.|
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.
Thomas á KempisImitation of Christ. Bk. I. Ch. III. 6.
|Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire.|
No flowery road leads to glory.
La FontaineFables. X. 14.
|La gloire nest jamais où la vertu nest pas.|
Glory is never where virtue is not.
| The glory of Him who|
Hung His masonry pendant on naught, when the world He created.
LongfellowThe Children of the Lords Supper. L. 177.
|Those glories come too late|
That on our ashes wait.
LovelaceInscription on Title-page of Posthumous Poems. (1659).
|This goin ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.|
LowellThe Biglow Papers. First Series. No. II.
|Cineri gloria sera est.|
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MartialEpigrams. I. 26. 8.
|Go where glory waits thee;|
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me.
MooreGo Where Glory Waits Thee.
|Immensum gloria calcar habet.|
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
OvidEpistolæ Ex Ponto. IV. 2. 36.
|Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est gloria.|
Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain.
PhædrusFables. III. 17. 12.
|Who pants for glory, finds but short repose;|
A breath revives him, or a breath oerthrows.
PopeSecond Book of Horace. Ep. I. L. 300.
|Magnum iter adscendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires.|
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
PropertiusElegies. IV. 10. 3.
|Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!|
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
ScottOn Mortality. Ch. XXXIV. Introductory Stanza. Recently discovered in The Bee, Edinburgh, Oct. 12, 1791. Said to have been written by Major Mordaunt. Whole poem reproduced in Literary Digest, Sept. 11, 1920, P. 38.
|Glory is like a circle in the water,|
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till, by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Henry VI. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 133.
|When the moon shone, we did not see the candle;|
So doth the greater glory dim the less.
Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 92.
|Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,|
Some in their wealth, some in their bodies force,
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill;
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest.
|Like madness is the glory of this life.|
Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 139.
|Who would be so mockd with glory?|
Timon of Athens. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 33.
| Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,nothing so expensive as glory.|
Sydney SmithLady Hollands Memoir. Vol. I. P. 86.
|Heu, quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est.|
Alas! how difficult it is to retain glory!
| Et ipse quidem, quamquam medio in spatio integræ ætatis ereptus, quantum ad gloriam, longissimum ævum peregit.|
As he, though carried off in the prime of life, had lived long enough for glory.
|Twas glory once to be a Roman;|
She makes it glory, now, to be a man.
Bayard TaylorThe National Ode.
| I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.|
Themistocles. On being taunted with his want of social accomplishments. Plutarchs Life.
|Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,|
But lookd to near have neither heat nor light.
John WebsterThe White Devil. Act V. Sc. 1.
|Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!|
WordsworthTo B. R. Haydon. L. 14.
|We rise in glory, as we sink in pride:|
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
YoungNight Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 508.