| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...Nerera'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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, 1 Gaikli Where yo ling— connected with the verb to go — going about, wandering, straying. - rv... | |
| Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
...has fulfilled all the hopes of his youth ; the other, we can only speak of him with unbidden tears. " But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not tie praise." INDEX TO FIRST VOLUME. America,... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...tangles of 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 ;...out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury, with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...of Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity of noble the abhorred shear», And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
| United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...the spnr that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, aud live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shear», And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phirbu i replied, and touched... | |
| Scotland - 1847 - 806 pages
...OF TiIE INNER TEMPLE, RARRISTER-AT-LAW. RT SAMUEL WARREN, OF TUR INNER TEMPLE, DARRISTER-AT-LAW. Bat 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 life. M U.TON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith,... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...ofNemra's hair I 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...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, ( omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,'... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...SEßteberljall. 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 ;...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Neiera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirunty of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, • omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,'... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...of NeaBra'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;...fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst oat into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred sheers, And slits the thin-spun life.... | |
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