 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 Seiten
...when we hope to find, To scorn delights and live laborious days; And think to burst out into sudd«n blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 Seiten
...eyes. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 Seiten
...into sudden hhr/e, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. Hut not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touch' d my trembling ears; * Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, INor in the glist'ring foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies; 80 But lives... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 274 Seiten
...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...thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil Set... | |
 | 1836 - 558 Seiten
...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...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 286 Seiten
...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...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 270 Seiten
...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 sins the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; Fame is... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1858 - 672 Seiten
...renown, or, as 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 ; nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft, by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove, As he pronounces... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 398 Seiten
...and wise," and then with energy would quote the following beautiful lines from Milton : — ' 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 ; As he pronounces... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (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... 
