 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 of all-judging Jove;...  A System of English Grammar - Seite 149von Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1824 - 131 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 562 Seiten
...trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that-grows in mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foll Set off to th' perfeet witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounees lastly on eaeh deed, Of so mueh fame in Heav'n... | |
 | John Milton - 1826
...trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' .world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads...all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heav'n expect thy meed. 0 fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827
...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,...all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.' O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 325 Seiten
...beautifully told, ' Is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads...aloft, by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-seeing Jove.' " There was an elevation about all this that won upon the secret hearts of De Vere... | |
 | 1827
...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 of all judging Jove, As he pronounces lastly on each deed." May such fame as this, be my country's meed... | |
 | 1827
...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 eves And perfect witness of all judging Jove,... | |
 | Leeds grammar sch - 1828
...than Wordsworth — " Fame la no plant that grows on moital soil, " Nor in the glistering f oil " Let off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; ,< But...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... | |
 | Laconics, John Timbs - 1829
...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...all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. Lycidas— Milttn. Dcxcvm When upon a trial, a man calls... | |
 | Laconics, John Timbs - 1829
...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...all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. DCXCVIII. .1.i/1 ii!us—Milton. When upon a trial, a man... | |
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