 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pages
...mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad Rumour lies, But li ves and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect...witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly in each deed, Of so much fame in heav'n expect thy meed." The sweetest music does not fall sweeter... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 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, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; But lives and spreads... | |
 | Horatio Balch Hackett - 1858 - 510 pages
...pursue 1 No more than in the words of Milton : — " 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." their own way, without manifesting his sense of their conduct, either by sending to them special messengers... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1858 - 656 pages
...intently, tranquilly, and reverently searches out the mysterious works and ways of Creation. " 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Sara Sheppard - Musical fiction - 1858 - 382 pages
... RUMOUR. BY THE AUTHOR OF " CHAELES AUCHESTEE," " COUNTER PAETS," &c. &c. ' 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1858 - 248 pages
...in the glistering foi1 Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies ; But 1ives and spreads a1oft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces 1astly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed." VIII. Non esse te mortalem, sed corpus... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1858 - 914 pages
...that they should be unknown ; and none of whom looked, or sought, for other applause than that which ' Lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of the All-judging, As he pronounces lastly on each deed.' " Edward Everett, at a public dinner, on the... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1859 - 652 pages
...intently, tranquilly, and reverently searches out the mysterious works and ways of Creation. " 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... | |
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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... 
