 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, ""• And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 Seiten
...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,...blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 Seiten
...thankless Muse ! Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 Seiten
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ;... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 Seiten
...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,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 Seiten
...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...blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 266 Seiten
...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,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears. And slits the thin-spun life." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 Seiten
...Or with the tangles of Nosera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That l»st infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun Míe." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 Seiten
...pictured by our great Epic poet, in his "Lycidas:" " 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise •;"/'.',,,,» l,i-! infirmity of noble mindi) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. — " But not the praitt," Phoebus reply'd, and... | |
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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... 
