 | Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1824 - 310 pages
...burst out into sudden 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, « Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...enterprises ! ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the...blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. while, it would be easy to trace the ancestors of the late noble poet to... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...enterprises ! ' Fame it the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Tii scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with Hi' abhorred shears And slits the thin-sjiun life ' CHAFFER I. while, it would be easy to trace the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the elear sp'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To seorn tlunk to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Rut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Pho?bus replied, and touch*... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the...blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from a family more remarkable for its... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind !) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that will attach to the name of Colling... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (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... 
