 ... (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 shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not...  An Introduction to English Literature - Page 277by Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 656 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1864 - 360 pages
...a third, would cease, and they all would be permitted to await the verdict of posterity. " 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 JOTB.... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - 1864 - 34 pages
...conciliate popular opinion, or to nurse a reputation like some puny exotic ; believing that " 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...pastoral allusions and the tenor of b> subject."— T. Wartoa. PhfEbus replied, and touch'd my tremblin; ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil,...glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies ; 8C But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 pages
...venit."—MARTIAL. " Cum trausierint mci Nullo cum strepitn dies, Plebcius moriar senex."—SENECA. " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil Nor in the glistering...foil Set off to the world: nor in broad rumour lies, Bnt lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfeet witness of all jndging love, As he pronounces... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 446 pages
...heroism. The fame of the Christian is not fame with men, it is good report with God ; and that " 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.... | |
 | Helen Carr - 1865 - 356 pages
...youth and love supply ? A DIRGE. ' ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to the world ; nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads abroad in those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove. As he pronounces lastly on each... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1866 - 320 pages
...the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise." Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; "Fame is...spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all- judging Jove; Corda virum, quern terra olim, quam magna, dolebat, Tempore quo, dirum auditu strepitante... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, and slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise' Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. ' Fame is...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... | |
 | Mary Lowell Putnam - 1866 - 312 pages
...admire. Our desire of sympathy, our regard for justice, both ask it. But we must have trust. " 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."... | |
 | 1866 - 376 pages
...th' 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 Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies ; » But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect... | |
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