 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred...  The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning - Pągina 134per Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 918 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pągines
...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 pągines
...5ßon meineź gebenź SBieberl)all. SCHILLER. Fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pągines
...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,...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears j " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pągines
...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,...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pągines
...tangles of Neaera's hair? Leuon 158.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pągines
...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,...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pągines
...when she speaketh ill of men — Saville. Dcxcvn. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pągines
...incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Wtaion.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 pągines
...Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? *Pnm. time. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 274 pągines
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Neasra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil,... | |
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