 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...  Extracts from English Literature - Pagina 80door John Rolfe - 1867 - 383 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagina’s
...Neicra'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...And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la its magnificent as it in aflectinff."— Sir E. Brydgti.... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pagina’s
...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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 pagina’s
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : £nt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...And slits the thin-spun life,— But not the praise !"— MILTON. LET us look into the apartment of a young lawyer preparing his first great case. The... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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