 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 533de John Milton - 1892 - 618 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...infirmity of noble minds — To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when wo et Autumn spread his treasures to the sun, Luxuriant...turbulent domain, Your empire owns, and from a th Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fume is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neicra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la its magnificent as it in aflectinff."— Sir E. Brydgti.... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 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,...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : £nt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...And slits the thin-spun life,— But not the praise !"— MILTON. LET us look into the apartment of a young lawyer preparing his first great case. The... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 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...; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad Rumour lies, But li ves and spreads aloft... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Xeara'a hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Ne;pra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 15 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Une so. w Where were ye I" "This bunt Isas... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
...well does Milton say: " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be recorded of the larger portion than that they write... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 266 pages
...tortures the ear. 3 See Lycidas, line 70, et seq. " 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." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's Sonnets. Admires two songs... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...Or with the tangles of N'esera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That list infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live...the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what has just been said, and telling... | |
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