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AUREL. Prumu Lauroeentut. 

 12, Icosandria. Order: MonoenaA. To 

 wear the crown of laurel, baa been the sol- 

 dier's ambition from the earliest ages to 

 the present day; it is also regarded ai the 

 appropriate reward of poets, orators, and 

 philosophers. 



GLORY. 



The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors. 



Spenser. 



Their temples wreath'd with leaves that still renew: 

 For deathless laurel is the victor's due. 



Dryden. 



Real glory 

 Springs from the conquest of ourselves ; 

 And without that the conqueror is nought 

 But the first slave. 



Thomson. 



And should the aspiring man, that makes his gain 

 Of others' hurts, not hurt himself for gain? 

 Not, when he stabs another for a purse, 

 Prick his own bosom for a dearer price, 

 And wound his heart, to laurel-crown his head. 



Bird. 



Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, 

 Or let us glory gain, or glory give. 



Pope. 



And glory long has made tfa mile ; 



'T is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind- 

 Depending more upon the historian's style 

 Than on the name a person leaves behind. 



Byron. 



