Beowulf, for example, perceives life as a race to glory (“Let whoever can / win glory before death”). This speech encapsulates the poem's tension between doom ...

Jan 24, 2012 · The name — that is the fame of the person — has died long before the man himself has died. This last line — “The name died before the man” — is ...

Oct 19, 2017 · 1. Vincent van Gogh · 2. Emily Dickinson · 3. Galileo Galilei · 4. Edgar Allan Poe · 5. Gregor Johann Mendel · 6. Henry Darger · 7. Henry David ...

Nov 16, 2021 · Some crave fame, or at least wide recognition. And some even desire glory that will only be realised after their death. Such desires are either ...

Glory suggests two ideas to me, of which one seems wicked and the other ridiculous. Either glory means to me fame, or it means luminosity. As for the first, ...

If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die…. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the ...

Mar 15, 2012 · Although Alexander was mostly just conquering territory for the glory and heroism and greatness of it all, in his wake emerged a more closely ...

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Mar 4, 2021 · Some of the world's most beloved and widely read authors didn't hit it big until years, or even decades, after their deaths.

So Man, as is most just, Shall satisfy for Man, be judged and die, And dying rise, and rising with him raise His brethren, ransomed with his own dear life. So ...