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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;... "
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron: With ... - Page 378
by John Watkins - 1822 - 428 pages
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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." O fountain Arethuse, and th'ou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...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." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds! That...
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Licida, di Giovanni Milton: Mondodia per la morte del naufragato Eduardo King

John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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,...deed, " Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and them, honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the gliit'ring foil, Set off to th' world : nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes,...each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. O fountain Arethusc,and thouhonor'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds, That strain...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 88

1860 - 796 pages
...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...deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.'" "But don't you see," I replied, " that there is an ambiguity in this : for Milton, though he uses the...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; 81 As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds ! That...
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An Historical and Critical Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Right ...

John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...letter his lordship reiterated what the Counsel had advanced, respecting Milton, — but to as litd epurpose, for the author of Paradise Lost was a believer...Opinions on the French Revolution — on Politics — and ReligionMr. Southey 's Letter. — Parody on the " Vision of Judgment." THE Spaniards have a good proverb,...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 17

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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,...deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse ! and thou hoiior'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds ! That...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil, Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : Br.t lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect...deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds I That...
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Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum: Containing Brief Characters of the English ...

Edward Phillips - 1824 - 310 pages
...grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour l1es, — But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And...each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. » the author was living. Yet in the enthusiasm of youth we delude ourselves even with the hope of...
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