| Miscellany poems - 1716 - 426 pages
...blind Fury with th' abhorred (hears, And flits the thin-fpun Life. But not the praife, That/us repli'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the gliftering foil Set off to th' world, not in broad rumour lies, But lives and fpreds... | |
| John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...eader may fee the fame fentiment fpun it; and the third cut k off Vol. II. O hour Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the glift'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and fpreads... | |
| John Milton - 1759 - 414 pages
...Fury with th'abhorred fhears, 75 And flits the thin-fpun life. But not the praife, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the glift'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumor lies, 80 But lives and fpreads... | |
| John Milton - 1765 - 412 pages
...Fury with th' abhorred fliears, 75 And flits the thin fpun life. But not the praife Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the glift'ring foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, So But lives and fpreads... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...fudden blaze, blind Fury with th' abhorred (hears, 7$ iie thin-fpun life. But not the praife, ply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumor lies, So But lives and fpreads... | |
| English poetry - 1781 - 512 pages
...Fury with th' abhorred fhears, And flits the thin-fpun life. ' But not the praife,* Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, * Nor in the glift'ring foil * Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, ' But lives and... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...blind fury with th' abhorred fhears, And flits the thin-fpun life. But not the praife Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the gliftering foil, Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and fpreads... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...blind fury with th' abhorred {hears, And flits the thin-fpun life. But not the praife Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the glittering foil, Set off" to th' world, nor in broad rumour Kes t But lives and fpreads... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; * Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad Rumor lies, 80 But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 272 pages
...replied, and touch'd my trembling eari J Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil, Nor in the glift'ring foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and fpreads aloft by thofe pure eyei, And perfect witnefs of all-judging love ; As he pronounces hilly... | |
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