 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity of noble minds — ) touched my trembling cars ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...tear. Line 70. 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. Line 101. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark. Line 109. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...thankless Muse ! Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...Neicra'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...And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la its magnificent as it in aflectinff."— Sir E. Brydgti.... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 pages
...Xeara'a 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, And perfect witness of all-judging... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 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...thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
...Milton say: " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be recorded of the larger portion than that they write... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...N'esera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That list infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But, the...the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what has just been said, and telling... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Authors - 1859 - 268 pages
...70, et seq. " 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." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's Sonnets. 4 By the son of... | |
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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... 
