'You are fallen, but let this comfort you, in your fall you have found immortal fame.'
The poem insists upon the need for genealogy to "preserve due class distinctions in Irish society, while the versifying of battle deeds guarantees immortal fame for the chieftains concerned."
The effect suggests a triumphal arch leading to both the immortal fame desired by the humanist scholar and spiritual deliverance sought by the pious Christian.
If they pursue it, they will not achieve a market, a fortune or an immortal fame- they will merely destroy production, employment and art.
More than the Brontosaurs, more than the ceratopsian eggs of the Gobi Desert, it is this astonishing leap of reckless insight that has assured his immortal fame.
In Bibliotheca historica, Diodorus Siculus wrote, "Polyhymnia, because by her great (polle) praises (humnesis) she brings distinction to writers whose works have won for them immortal fame...".
He acquired immortal fame for himself and Croatia in the Battle of Szigetvár in 1566.
Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
It certainly wasn't in a quest for immortal fame since poets in his era had no such notions.
The Poet wins the whole world's love, and immortal fame,--his adverse Critic, brief contempt, and measureless oblivion.