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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... "
Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ... - Page 213
by John Milton - 1753 - 350 pages
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 20

United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...— " Fame is the spur that the clear 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 to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun...
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The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ...

1838 - 1050 pages
...•• Fame to 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 blaxe, Com« the blind fury with th' abhorr'd shear*. And slits the thin spun...
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The Works of Lady Blessington: The two friends. The repealers. Confessions ...

Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1838 - 422 pages
...clear spirit doth raise, (That lael infirmity of nohle minds) To scorn >ielight, and five lahorious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to hurst out into sudden hlaze. Conies the hlind fury with th' ahhorred eticare, And slits the thin-spun...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...? 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. .En....
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily of noble mind) 71 To scorn OR. САКТО Ш. Yet, if these finer whims are gone, Your clock, though plain, would sti burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1843 - 364 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 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit dolh raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn rble his burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spnn...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 33

Theology - 1843 - 424 pages
...struggles. " 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 shears, And slits the thin-spun...
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