 | 1823 - 732 pages
...hard blow on thy tender flowers with their foggy breath, doubt not the advent of due guerdon. Fame it no plant that grows on mortal soil; Nor in the glistering foil, Set of to the world : nor in broad rumour lies. Relinquish not our art — lest thine own in anger desert... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil, Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glisfrine foil, Set of I' to' the world, nor in broad rumour lies; 80 But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes. And perfect witness of all -judging Jove As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 552 pages
...glory far, very far, from my country. Never.-— never may it be accursed, with such fame. " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd my trembling ears; , Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil, Set off to' the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...fame. " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eves And perfect witness of all judging Jove, As he pronounces lastly on each deed." May such fame... | |
 | Leeds grammar sch - 1828 - 364 pages
...that grows on moital soil, " Nor in the glistering f oil " Let off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; ,< But lives and spreads aloft by those pure...eyes, " And perfect witness of all-judging Jove." He has not, to use the words of a great master of eloquence,0 he has not (like many of the present... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1832 - 320 pages
...the purest praise of man, to more sublime contemplations. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, But lives and spreads aloft, by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove. Those who have most inculcated the doctrine of utility have given another notable example of the very... | |
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Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies... 
