"Fastuous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... speak on such a theme? He is a treasure by the world neglected, Because he hath not, with a prescience dim, Like those whose every aim is self-reflected, Pil'd up some fastuous trophy, that of him Might tell, what mighty powers the age rejected, But taught his lips the office of a pen— By fools he's deem'd a ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas |
