Word: fame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more to seek for journalistic fame...
Genius, too long repressed, then sought for fame...
Though men revile and, striving after fame...
...country, it was true of Carlyle. For a long time he could find no publisher for his "Sartor Resartus," and it had to be published piecemeal in a magazine. It was left to a Harvard graduate to collect the scattered papers into a book, which thus established his fame. His miscellaneous Essays, contributed to various English magazines, were collected by the same loving hand and first published in this country. The man who thus taught England to honor its prophet was no other than Ralph Waldo Emerson, for many years an Overseer of our own College...
...hope, of joy, of fame...