 | George Clinton - 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Rut 徫 삀 π w ݔ ... 삀 0 ǀ L Ɖ $ & Pho?bus replied, and touch* d my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | 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...thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd my trembling ears; , Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil,... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind !) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind !) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind !) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise '. we may safely add — for that... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...when she speaketh ill of men — Saville. Dcxcvn. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...Milton, in those matchless verses of his Lycidast " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The... | |
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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... 
