 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Rut 徫 삀 π w ݔ ... 삀 0 ǀ L Ɖ $ & Pho?bus replied, and touch* d my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit 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, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope...And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd my trembling ears; , Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...great poet : ' 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 ' we may safely add — for that... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...great poet : ' 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 ' we may safely add — for that... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...enterprises ! ' Fame i ? 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.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...great poet : ' 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 '. we may safely add — for that... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...his Lycidast " 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." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The... | |
 | James Webster - 1830 - 414 pages
...Milton are as justly applicable, as they were to his own friend, the " much lovM Lycidas." " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...subesset ingens Cupido gloria qua etiam sapientibus novisiima exuitur." Stradse Prelu. p. 161. ed. Ox. To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 74 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise,... | |
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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... 
