 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...  Cowley, Denham, Milton - Page 473edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Juvenile Fiction - 1860 - 134 pages
...our memoir. " Fame is the spur that the pure spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And clips the thin-spun life. But not the praise That lives and spreads aloft by the pure eyes, And perfect... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...Nesera'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, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Line 50. " Where were ye ?" '" This burst is... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days: But the fair g jerdon, when we hope to find, And think to burst out into...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phosbus replied, and touched my trembling ears: " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | England - 1860 - 668 pages
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble rnind) To scorn delights, aiid live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th" abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life -' " "Ah, but," said Garitón, "you must not omit... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...DEcErr.) FAME. 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. MILTON. What so foolish as the chase of Fame ? How vain the prize! how impotent our aim! For what are... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - 1861 - 362 pages
...Milton ? — ' 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...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... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Criminals - 1861 - 360 pages
...Milton ? — ' 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, Ajid think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind...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... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 pages
...impediisse capillis? 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...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...Neaera'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,' Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
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