 ... (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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 851860Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...abhorred shears. And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone. Trace Science, then, with Modesty gliEtering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1853 - 810 páginas
...thy decent shoulders drawn. • (e) Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies,...spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of nil-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed.... | |
 | 1853 - 560 páginas
...the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is...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 witness... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1853 - 722 páginas
...such glory far, very far, from my country. Never, never may it be accursed with such fame. " 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,... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1853 - 336 páginas
...of youth with fresh spring flowers. History will borrow her • tone from neither of these. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumor lies ; But lives, and spreads aloft, by those pure eyes, And perfect... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 páginas
...her great adopted son. Has lost ? Oh, no ! "I still live" is truer than the sick man knew: — " He lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging God." 107 His memory will long live with us, still dear to many a loving heart. What honor shall we... | |
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