Note 245:A — Chapter VII
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"Babel's projectors, seeking a name, found confusion; and Icarus, by flying too high, melted his waxen wings and fell into the sea." "Grey cap for a green head." Gray express the idea very forcibly:
"Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then hurl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy!"