 | English literature - 1849 - 292 pages
...foundation not upon the earth, subjeet to the breath of slander and the shaft of envy : — " 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 perfeet... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' 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 ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 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 earnestly inculcated the doctrine of Utility have given another notable example... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...the thin-spun life. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J 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 rumor lies; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Immortality - 1851 - 240 pages
...in the sixth and seventh chapters, we may compare the lines in Milton's Lycidas, 78 -84 : " 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...ears ; . Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the gliEtering foil Set off to the world, ipage of Pride ; Deduct ; 8I As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Education, Humanistic - 1852 - 62 pages
...still might it be, if we could rise with Milton, to a strain of higher mood, and realize that " Eame 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 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 O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That... | |
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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... 
