 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 286 页
...the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil i Set off to the world, nor in broad Rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 页
...that grows in mortal soil, Noi 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 of all-judging Jove." " The last infirmity of noble minds'' is still an infirmity. It is a false motive when it is a sole... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1858 - 672 页
...renown, or, as Jeremy Bentham used to call it, " Love of the Trumpet :" Fame is no plant that grows in 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... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 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 touch'd my trembling ears : ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 398 页
...and wise," and then with energy would quote the following beautiful lines from Milton : — ' 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... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 446 页
...wise," and then with energy would quote the following beautiful lines from Milton : — ' Fame i^iio 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... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 页
...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phosbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears, Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to the world; nor in broad rumor lies; But lives, and spreads aloft, to those... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 页
...Prelu. p. 161. ed. Ox. 74 blaze] So P. Reg. iii. 47. ' For what is glory but the blaze of fame.' Warlon. 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 glist'ring foil... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 页
...more goodly, and attract more eyes. Than that which bath uufvil to set it off. Sliahspearc. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering...foil Set off to the' world, nor in broad rumour lies. Hilton. As she a black silk cap on him begun To set for foil of his milk-white to serve. Sidney. Hector... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 页
...fame which he sought was that " which the clear Spirit doth raise." " Fame is no plant that grows in 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... | |
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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... 
