 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...&c.: see Horace. 170 LYCIDAS. Comes the blind Fury 1 with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and...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 lastly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phœbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is...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 lastly... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - Gift books - 1853 - 336 pages
...strew the grave of youth with fresh spring flowers. History will borrow her tone from neither of these. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumor lies ; But lives, and spreads aloft, by those pure eyes, And perfect... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, ISTor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies ; so But lives and spreads... | |
 | Universalism - 1854 - 446 pages
...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...glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies: But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phffibus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil, Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 620 pages
...Fury with the abhorred shears, 73 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phrebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that...foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies; 80 But lires and spreads aloft by those pure eyes S3. The tttep; supposed to be Keriey Drudion. a dr'iiil... | |
 | Scotland - 1860 - 796 pages
...answer, and a noble one it is— I'lnubus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; ' But not the praise, Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in...to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jovo ; As ho pronounces lastly... | |
 | D. S. Carne-Ross - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 220 pages
...we do. Immediately after the lines I quoted from Ljcidas, Milton turns to a different kind of fame. (“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, / Nor in the glistering foil / Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, / But lives and spreds aloft by those pure eyes, / And perfet... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...crest—words that begin with an echo of Vergil's Eclogue Six (3—5): But not the praise, Phoebus repli'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that...mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th'world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreds aloft by those pure-eyes, And perfet witnes... | |
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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 Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies; But lives aud spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect... 
