 | 1849 - 296 页
...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; As... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 页
...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 not the praise,'...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... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 页
...hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro perculsus amore, Pygmalion cupido continuisse sinu, Donee... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 页
...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 earnestly inculcated the doctrine of Utility have given another notable example... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 页
...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on...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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1851 - 240 页
...in the sixth and seventh chapters, we may compare the lines in Milton's Lycidas, 78 -84 : " 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 Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 62 页
...still might it be, if we could rise with Milton, to a strain of higher mood, and realize that " Eame 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 页
...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 mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That... | |
 | 1852 - 874 页
...hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears. d may rise, and climb from art to art ; But when hia own great work is bu touch'd my trembling ears ; . Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the gliEtering foil... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 页
...hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury, 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 on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred... 
