To a native of rank, arrest was not merely a restraint, but a foul personal indignity.
<Dishonor, disgrace, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, opprobrium>.
His honor rooted in dishonor stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament,—the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonor, or him who survives it.
Could he with reason murmur at his case
Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state.
Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest.
Wilful perpetuations of unworthy actions brand with most indelible characters of infamy the name and memory to posterity.
And when his long public life, so singularly chequered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die.