O! who shall lightly say that fame
is nothing but an empty name?
Source: The Legend of Christopher Columbus, St. Iix, Fugitive Verses, 1790.
-- Joanna Baillie, (Sep 11 1762-1851), Scottish poet, dramatist; Her plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline; wrote her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol., 1798-1812.