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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;... "
An Historical and Critical Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Right ... - Page 388
by John Watkins - 1822 - 427 pages
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honoured flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius,2 crowned with vocal reeds ! That...
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Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, with critical ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ning 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." O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with vocal reeds, That...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

1845 - 732 pages
...plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor 8q5N - 4 Jf r $ e N# ׯ y B" ʏ ...3 : > l y 7 nڸq mkԄ , ey [ ן ʙ o { vO 6u 6{ ӊO ^zpϛ EAD ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE.* The period embraced in this work of Mr. Alison furnishes more copious...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring 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." That came in Neptune's plea; He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...in the glist'ring foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives, and spreads alofi by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging...deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed." That came in Neptune's plea; He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...in the glist'ning foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives, and spreads alofi by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging...deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed." That came in Neptune's plea; He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

1845 - 688 pages
...lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove : Аз he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed. EAD ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE." The period embraced in this work of Mr. Alison furnishes more copious...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 4

George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 pages
...glistering foil, Set oft' to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure And perfect witness of all-judging Jove : As he pronounces...on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy • eyes, meed—" but an impudent, pretentious, coarsely painted harlot rather, a woman of the streets,...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging JOTC ; n other thing him grope — Than hadde he spent all his philosophie ; Ay Questio [Satan'i Addreu to the San.'] [From • Paradise Lot."] 0 thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the "I v1 xv1 1 [Satan's Address to the Sun.'] [From ' Paradise Lost.1] 0 thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd,...
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