 | Leigh Hunt - 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 fair...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...JVetera'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 fair...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...on Fuint'. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noblo mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with tli' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton. Ly ciilat. PETILL. That man that loves... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1845 - 356 pages
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind] To scorn delights, and lire laborious days, But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comas the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thinspun life.— Hut not the praise,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, 1 Gaikli Where yo ling— connected with the verb to go — going about, wandering, straying. - rv... | |
 | 1846 - 506 pages
...has fulfilled all the hopes of his youth ; the other, we can only speak of him with unbidden tears. " But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not tie praise." INDEX TO FIRST VOLUME. America, a Working man's recollections of, 97. Axe and... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch 'd my trembling ears. " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity of noble mind) To shear», And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling... | |
 | 1847 - 806 pages
...OF TiIE INNER TEMPLE, RARRISTER-AT-LAW. RT SAMUEL WARREN, OF TUR INNER TEMPLE, DARRISTER-AT-LAW. Bat the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. M U.TON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith, barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, now appears,... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...the spnr that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, aud live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shear», And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phirbu i replied, and touched... | |
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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... 
