 | 1755 - 262 pàgines
...that best reward of their literary labours, (independently of their expeditious sale,) "THAT FAME, the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, " (That last infirmity of noble minds) " To scorn delight, and live laborious days,* blow out their midnight lamp, and extinguish their... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shad*, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fnme is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think... | |
 | 1860 - 796 pàgines
...will tell you that it is no better than a bubble. What says your favourite Milton ?— ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th" abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | 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 think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 pàgines
...lion's mane." But to Tasso, how forcibly do the following pathetick lines of Lycidas apply. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delight and live laborious days. But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, Ainl... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pàgines
...o Or with the tangles of Nesra's hair ? ., L Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise L . (That last infirmity of noble mind) / To scorn delights,...guerdon when we hope to find, £ • And think to burst out into sudden blaze, -f ,Comes the blind Fury with the' abhorred shears, /' ^ (., And slits... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pàgines
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pàgines
...Amaryllis in the shade, Or tvith the tangles of Neaera's hair? Leuon 158.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pàgines
...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...the fair guerdon when 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pàgines
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
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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... 
