 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...  Longer English Poems - Page 21edited by - 1884 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The... | |
 | James Webster - Egypt - 1830 - 414 pages
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 270 pages
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And sins the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; Fame... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...spirit doth raise TO (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 Vir. jEn. 1. 381. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Warlon. 69 tangles]... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To ecorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phcebuj replied, and touched... | |
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