Note 70 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.
Reading edition
The names which follow are inappropriate examples of "fair virtue's silent train." The first on the list spent his days in promulgating his philosophy, and they were all energetic public characters who made a stir in the world. When Pope originated the expression, he must have been thinking of the unobtrusive virtues of private life, and he probably added the illustrations later without observing the incongruity.