Careful Words

famous (adj.)

I 'll make thee glorious by my pen,

And famous by my sword.

Marquis Of Montrose (1612-1650): My Dear and only Love.

I 'll make thee glorious by my pen,

And famous by my sword.

Marquis Of Montrose (1612-1650): My Dear and only Love.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Memoranda from his Life, by Moore, Chap. xiv.

  When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852): Remarks on Agriculture, Jan. 13, 1840. P. 457.

Thence to the famous orators repair,

Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence

Wielded at will that fierce democratie,

Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece,

To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267.

  Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

John Milton (1608-1674): Tractate of Education.

"But what good came of it at last?"

Quoth little Peterkin.

"Why, that I cannot tell," said he;

"But 't was a famous victory."

Robert Southey (1774-1843): The Battle of Blenheim.