 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...  De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence - Seite 79von Robert Plumer Ward - 1827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1827 - 552 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Leeds grammar sch - 1828 - 364 Seiten
...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 lives and...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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...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,...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.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 Seiten
...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,...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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 Seiten
...slits 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 glist'ring...foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies; so But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he... | |
 | 1832 - 406 Seiten
...slits the thin spun life. But not the praise, Phcebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling cars ; Fame in no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those p«re eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 320 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 Seiten
...love of fame ? Fame, we shall be told, is " no plant that grows in mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies,...spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove—" — as that great poet has described it, whose works are a perpetual invocation... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 Seiten
...great deeds and great discoveries. "Fame is no plant that grows in mortal soil, Noi in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies,...spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove." " The last infirmity of noble minds'' is still an infirmity. It is a false motive... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 Seiten
...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 ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much Fame in Heaven expect thy meed... | |
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