 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...  Cowley, Denham, Milton - Page 473edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pages
...Nesera'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...thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
...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 days ; But the...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...Ne;pra's hair? 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 pages
...70, et seq. " 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." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's Sonnets. 4 By the son of... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...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 laborious days; But, the...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...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 laborious days ; But, the...Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun Míe." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what lias just been said,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1859 - 612 pages
...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...slits the thin-spun life, — but not the praise.' " From the man, let us now turn to the works of the poet. His chief reputation has been as a writer... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...Lycidas :" " 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phcebus replied, and touched... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Bat, the fair guerdon when we hope to find And think to...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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