 | Robert Pollok - Actors - 1857 - 384 pages
...time, though meagre all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues...to her. The deed alone, though dyed in human gore, I And steeped in widows' tears, if it stood out To prominent display, she talked of much, And roared... | |
 | Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 pages
...Time, though meagre all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues of men. 8 She never thought, but gabbled ever on ; Applauding most what least deserved applause : The motive,... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...time, though meager all, and ghostly thin, Host unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues of men. 2. She never thought, but gabbled ever on ; Applauding most what least deserved applause. The motive,... | |
 | Judah - 1866 - 202 pages
...time, though meagre all and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues of men. 8he never thought ; but gabbled ever on ; Applauding most what least deserved applause : The motive,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...time, though meagre all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues...on, Applauding most what least deserved applause. FAME (continued}. Fame ! the loose breathings of a clamorous crowd, Ever in lies most confident and... | |
 | Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd - English poetry - 1871 - 426 pages
...Time, though meager all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues of men. She never thought ; but gabbled ever on ; 416 Applauding most what least deserved applause ; The motive, the result, was naught to her : The... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...and ghostly Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, [thin, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice aloue, and bowed [power His spirit with the thought of boundless...riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and widow's tears, if it stood out To prominent display, she talked of such, And roared around it with... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Time, though meagre all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She God Himself hath bidden. Ask ye what is His name...battle. And were this world all Devils o'er, And watchin nought to her : The deed alone, though dyed in human gore, And steep'd in widow's tears, if it stood... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 786 pages
...time though meagre all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues...deed alone, though dyed in human gore, And steeped in widow's tears, if it stood out To prominent display, she'taked of much, And roared around it with a... | |
 | John Ross - English poetry - 1878 - 816 pages
...time though meagre all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone. And dwelt upon the noisy tongues...deed alone, though dyed in human gore, And steeped in widow's tears, if it stood out To prominent display, she'taked of much, And roared around it with a... | |
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Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all, and ghostly thin, Most unsubstantial, unessential shade, Was earthly Fame. She was a voice alone, And dwelt upon the noisy tongues of men. She never thought, but gabbled ever on, Applauding... 
