Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Famous
I awoke one morning, and found myself famous.
Byron.—(In his Memoranda on the reception of Childe Harold by the public.)
Some frenchified or outlandish Monsieur, who hath nothing else to make him famous, I should say infamous, but &c. &c.
Prynne.—The unloveliness of love-locks, p. 27.