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... Verses and Translations - Page 116by Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 203 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1824 - 310 pages
...Lycidas\ « Fame is the spur that ike clear spirit doth raise, ( That last infirmity of noble minds, ) To scorn delights , and live laborious days : But...life. « But not the praise , » Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears, « Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 69 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blare, 71 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear sp'rit qual folly call, Believing nothing, or believing all. Th' Egyptian rites the Jebusites em ; is. t the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sadden blaze, Comes the... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 65 70 63. Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore.] In calling Hebrus swift, Milton, who is avaricious... | |
| George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' 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-spun life.' CHAPTER I. while, it would be easy to trace the... | |
| Theology - 1825 - 658 pages
...curiosity, or the hope of entertainment. With them no doubt both writers and readers, " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) . To scorn delights, and live laborious days :—" And we are always happy when " the fair guerdon" rewards at length their honourable and indefatigable... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the elear sp'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To seorn tlunk to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame it the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Tii scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last...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... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 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... | |
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