The Desire of Reputation: An Address, Before the Phoenix and Union Societies of Hamilton College, July 28, 1841 (Classic Reprint)

Milton was warmed by the same generous flame, and felt that there dwelt within him the innate power of rearing a monument which would convey his name to latest times, when he uttered this sentiment: I began to assent to my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strongest propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it Klopstock, in one of his best odes, has described the instinctive desire of future reputa tion, and of living in the memory of posterity, when found ed on a virtuous principle.

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