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Title: Fame
Author: Dryden, John
Date(s): 1697 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Extract from Dryden's translation of Virgil's "Aeneid" (IV.252, 255-73)
describing fame, or rumour, as a malicious winged monster of many eyes, mouths
and ears
Title: Fame
Author: Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Date(s): 167- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Extract from Rochester's "An Epistolary Essay", criticising the perverse effects on reputation of fame or notoriety
“Immortality and Fame”
1849-1928
Bound MS draft of an article ?; 27pp; with numerous corrections; spine bound in dark blue leather with title and author in golden embossed letters
Title: Fame and infamy
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 84
Contents: On the transience of fame, whereas an infamous reputation can last beyond the grave
The temple of fame : a vision
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
1715
"The hint of the following piece was taken from Chaucer's House of fame."--Advertisement, p. [5]. At the end are "Proposals for printing by subscription the works of... Jeoffrey Chaucer". First ed...
The parliament of birds, and The house of fame
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Skeat, Walter W (1835-1912)
1908