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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;... "
A System of English Grammar - Page 149
by Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 pages
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...Than that which hath nu/uii to set it off. Shakspearc. Fame is no plant that grows on n.ortal soil. Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the' world, nor in broad rumour lies. As she a black silk cap on him begun To set for foil of his milk-white to serve. Sidney. Hector has...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies; so But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And...all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heav'n expect thy meed. O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding...
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A General View of the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the ...

Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1832 - 320 pages
...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 inculcated the doctrine of utility have given another notable example of the very...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those p«re eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heav'n expect thy nice J." I But Milton's soul was nourished with the hope's of...
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A General View of the Progress of Ethical Philosophy: Chiefly During the ...

Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1832 - 380 pages
...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 inculcated the doctrine of utility have given another notable...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 45

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1835 - 570 pages
...we shall be told, is " no plant that grows in mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives, and spreads...And perfect witness of all-judging Jove—" — as that great poet has described it, whose works are a perpetual invocation before its altar. Shall we...
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Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 274 pages
...Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad...witness, of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly in each deed, Of so much fame in heav'n expect thy meed." The sweetest music does not fall sweeter...
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Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 270 pages
...and touched my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering (oil Set off to the world, nor in broad Rumour lies, But...witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly in each deed, Of so much fame in heav'n expect thy meed." Philosophy or Metaphysics in England and...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...trembling ears: " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set nil t" 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 lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed."...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 44

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1858 - 672 pages
...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 ;...all-judging Jove, As he pronounces lastly on each deed. Of so much praise in heaven expect thy meed. A notable invention has lately been adapted to the peal...
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