 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...*Pnm. time. 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...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 touched... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days; (That last infirmity of noble mind,) But the fair guer'don* when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...it. ADD1SON. 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...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... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...— " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To ecorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon...blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phcebuj replied, and touched my trembling ears." Many weak mortals... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise TO (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 Vir. jEn. 1. 381. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Warlon. 69 tangles] Benlowes's Thcophila,... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...raise (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the bright guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out...blind Fury, with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phosbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears, Fame is no plant... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...: — •• Fame to the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...we hope to find. And think to burst out into sudden blaxe, Com« the blind fury with th' abhorr'd shear*. And slits the thin spun life. But not the praise,... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1838 - 422 pages
...clear spirit doth raise, (That lael infirmity of nohle minds) To scorn >ielight, and five lahorious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to hurst out into sudden hlaze. Conies the hlind fury with th' ahhorred eticare, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Neaera's hair ? 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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. .En. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga prtevertitur Hebrum.' Warton. 69 tangles] Benlowes's... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Neaera's hair ] 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...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... | |
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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... 
