 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pàgines
...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pàgines
...5ßon meineê gebenê SBieberl)all. SCHILLER. Fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro perculsus... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pàgines
...the shade, Or with the tangles pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Pheebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pàgines
...noble structure moulders into dissolution. »' Fame is ihe spur that the clear spirit doth raise " To scorn delights, and live laborious days : " But...out into sudden blaze, " Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears " And slits the thin-spun life." Mihon's Ijycidas. « If it had pleased Divine... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pàgines
...Lesbian shore ? Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...praise,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears j " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pàgines
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, Audslitsthe thin-spun life. "But not the praise — (Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden bluze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But...is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the gliit'ring foil, Set off to th' world : nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | 1860 - 796 pàgines
...a bubble. What says your favourite Milton ?— ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th" abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life -' " "Ah, but," said Carlton, "you must not omit... | |
 | 1847 - 798 pàgines
...SMITH, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER- AT-tAW. BY SAMUEL WARREN, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTBR-AT-LAW. But the fair guerdon •when we hope to find, And...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. MILTON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith, barrister-at-law, of the Liner Temple, now appears,... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pàgines
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind; To scorn delights,...slits the thin-spun life.. " But not the praise," Phoabus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
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Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies... 
