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; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so... Death and Liffe: An Alliterative Poem - Page 186edited by - 1918 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...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 aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heav'n expect thy meed.... | |
| 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...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 of all judging Jove,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 384 pages
...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... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 542 pages
...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 as this, be my country's meed ! But the wise and thoughtful people of our northern section... | |
| Leeds grammar sch - 1828 - 364 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...eyes. Than that which hath nu/uii to set it off. Shakspearc. Fame is no plant that grows on n.ortal soil. Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the' world, nor in broad rumour lies. As she a black silk cap on him begun To set for foil of his milk-white to serve. Sidney. Hector has... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1832 - 380 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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