 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Ncirra's hair Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily of noble mind) 71 ГО. PRIOR. САКТО Ш. Yet, if these finer whims...on ; But spoil the engine of digestion, And you e the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...struggles. " 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." William Bradford Homer was born in Boston, January... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Netera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit dolh raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 child, Warble his the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spnn life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...hair! Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To sconi ȵ the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoobus replied, and touch'd... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 510 pages
...unreasoning elegy, why "scorn delights and live laborious days" in the vain pursuit of fame ; seeing that, 'the fair guerdon, when we hope to find. And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with abhorred (hears, And slits the thin-spun life!" But the only fame, which a true ambition is capable... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the Jspur that the clear spright 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 ! HUGH SWÏNTON LEGARE was sprung from that honorable stock which has given to South... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...JVetsra's hair 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the...blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.—" Hut not the praise," Phrebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ean ; " Fame is... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...Ne&ra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity of noble minds) 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" Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; " Fame is no... | |
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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... 
