 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 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...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... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...Neiera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity of noble mind) 7I art, to nobler end Holy and pure, conformity divine. Those tents thou saw'st touch'd my trembling ears ; . Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the gliEtering foil... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. ****** To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury, with abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hairî Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' Hut not the praise,' l'hœbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...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,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...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,...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — 2 ' Mona : ' the Isle of Man. — * 'Deva:' the English... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — * ' Mona : ' the Isle of Man. — * 'Deva:' the English... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...passage ? — ' 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...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Cornes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 384 pages
...latest times : "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...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 the world, nor... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 pages
...spirit doth raise, (That iast infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days j But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...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 the world, nor... | |
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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... 
