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Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons - Page 292
by Theodore Parker - 1855
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...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, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed." That came in...
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 618 pages
...purest praise of man, to more sublime contemplations. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, But lives and spreads aloft, by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove.* Those who have most earnestly inculcated the doctrine of Utility have given another notable...
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The Comparative Merits of Alloeopathy, the Old Medical Practice: And ...

I. G. Rosenstein - Homeopathy - 1846 - 304 pages
...grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumours lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure Eyes And perfect witness of the all-judging One ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed Of so much fame in heaven expect the meed."...
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The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 2

Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 pages
...grows on mortal soil, Nor is the glittering 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 justly on each deed. Of so much fame in Heaven expect the meed ! These Memorabilia...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...on mortal sou, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lires Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of to much fame in heaven expect thy meed.' [Satan's Address...
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The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Three ...

Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1848 - 630 pages
...praise of таял, to more sublime contemplations. Fame is no plnnt that grows on mortal soil, But lives and spreads aloft, by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove.* Those who have most earnestly inculcated the doctrine of Utility have given another notable...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.' [Satan's Address...
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Miscellaneous Works

Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pages
...purest praise of man, to more sublime contemplations. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, But lives and spreads aloft, by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove.* Those who have most earnestly inculcated the doctrine of Utility have given another notable...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...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 lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed. O fountain...
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...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, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed." TRUTH. TRUTH,...
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