A day for ever sad, for ever dear.—Wakefield.
[591] Heloisa to Abelard: "Shall my Abelard be never mentioned without tears? Shall the dear name be never spoken but with sighs?"
[592] Heloisa to Abelard: "I met with my name a hundred times. I never saw it without fear; some heavy calamity always followed it. I saw yours too equally unhappy."
[593] Pomfret in his Vision:
For sure that flame is kindled from below
Which breeds such sad variety of woe.—Wakefield.
Steevens quotes from Dryden's State of Innocence the expression "sad variety of hell," and the writer in the Gentleman's Magazine quotes from Yalden's Force of Jealousy the expression "a large variety of woe."
[594] Dryden, Palamon and Arcite:
Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.—Wakefield.
[595] Fame is not a passion.—Warton.
Ambition is the passion, and fame is the object of the passion.