 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pagini
...shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity of noble mind — To scorn delights,...think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury1 with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pagini
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity of noble minds — ) And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling cars ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagini
...the spur that tho clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) 1 «. „ To acorn delights, and live laborious days; '-!••' , But...sudden blaze, . Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shear?, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," line 50. *' Where were ye I" "This... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pagini
...spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; hut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagini
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neicra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, ""• And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pagini
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pagini
...thankless Muse ! Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 pagini
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : £nt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life,— But not the praise !"— MILTON. LET us look into the apartment of... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 pagini
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Xeara'a hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pagini
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ;... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (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... 
