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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 27 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

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Addison's Vision of the Table of Fame, in the Tatler: "In the midst there stood a palace of a very glorious structure; it had four great folding doors that faced the four several quarters of the world."

Charles Dryden's translation of the seventh Satire of Juvenal, ver. 245:

Behold how raised on high A banquet house salutes the southern sky.

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