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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, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging... "
Fragments of Science for Unscientific People: A Series of Detached Essays ... - Page 330
by John Tyndall - 1871 - 422 lehte
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A System of English Grammar

Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 lehte
...minds) Phoebus replied and touched my trembling ear ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, 10 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...
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The American Whig Review, 4. köide

George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 lehte
...Goldsmith, they mistake the footman for the lord. Fame is no longer the Fame of Milton— ",Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil, Set oft' to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure And perfect witness...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 lehte
...praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal sou, !i | ` rumour lies ; But lires and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove...
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Suggestions for the Amelioration of the Present Condition of Ireland

Montague Gore - 1847 - 76 lehte
...indeed done in distant and secluded spots ; they could look forward to no meed of public fame — " In the glistering foil " Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour ;" yet shall they have their reward. The feelings of grateful attachment which such conduct...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., 1. köide

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 lehte
...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd C rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove;...
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Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and ..., 9. köide

1849 - 296 lehte
...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;^j But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfeet witness of all-jndging Jove;...
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Sharpe's London Magazine, 9. köide

1849 - 292 lehte
...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 witness of all-jndging...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 442 lehte
...guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, • omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But...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...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 lehte
...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears: " Fame is no plant that grows on...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...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 lehte
...with abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows...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;...
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