 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...hair! Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To sconi Phoobus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears; ' Käme is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Neœra's hair ! Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 1 glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...SCHILLER. Farne. 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. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro perculsus amore, Pygmalion... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, — That last infirmity of noble minds, — To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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...is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the...is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil O fountain Arethuse, and thou honour'd flood, Smooth-sliding Mincius, crown'd with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...Neœra's hairî 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. ' Hut not the praise,' l'hœbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 384 pages
...latest times : "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the...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 the world, nor... | |
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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... 
