 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury...  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 408by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1866 - 306 pages
...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...thin-spun life. "But not the praise." Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...notes, with many a "winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. From Lycidas : — Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. How much the world is indebted to the " blind old master of English song," it would be impossible to... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's5 hair. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury6 with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phcebus replied,... | |
 | John A. J. Creswell - 1866 - 132 pages
...infirmity of noble rnind,) To scorn delights and live laborious days." And, alas! we must continue : "But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." . FROM THE KNOXVILLE WHIG. For the memory of no departed statesman have we greater reverence than that... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spire that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the...is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 474 pages
...and avoid the bad, and hence springs the merit and demerit." Milton, LycuLis, 70 : — "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise,' Phtrbus replied, and touched my trembling ears : ' Fame is no plant that growi on mortal toil, Nor... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...Milton, Lycidas, 70 : — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last intu miry of noble mind,) To scorn delights, and live laborious...life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 780 pages
...the merit and demerit." Milton, Lycidas, 70 :— " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth rais (That last infirmity of noble mind,} To scorn delights,...And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phccbus replied, and touched my trembling ears : 1 Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, Shepherd's trade,...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | 1885 - 1098 pages
...by the wells of Gakdul, his cherished memory and heroic example still remain with us. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." 1885.] Musings without Method: MUSINGS WITHOUT METHOD. EPIDEMICS AND ALCOHOL. IF, O reader, you have... | |
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