 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...grows in mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, Bat or damp, Or ghastly furies' apparition. I purs'd it...now that this extremity compell'd: But now I find it Heav'n expect thy meed. O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth sliding Mincius, crown'd... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all -jndging Jove : As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.'... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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, 64 О fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...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 - 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...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 Mincius, crown'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; 81 As lie pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arctluise, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds ! That strain... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. Lycidas— Milttn. Dcxcvm When upon a trial, a man calls witnesses to his cha* racier, and those witnesses... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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...each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. DCXCVIII. .1.i/1 ii!us—Milton. When upon a trial, a man calls witnesses to his character, and those... | |
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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 Jove... 
