| 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 to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity of noble mind) To scorn rt Chambers burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shear», And slits the thin-spun... | |
| 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 hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shear», And slits the thin-spun... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, • omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...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 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... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...fpirit doth raife 70 (That laft infirmity of Noble mind) To fcorn delights, and live laborious dayes ; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burft out into fudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred (hears, And flits the thin (pun life. But not the praife, Phoebus repli'd, and touch'd... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...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... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. ****** 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 abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity of noble mind) 7I To scorn obler end Holy and pure, conformity divine. Those tents thou saw'st burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears. And slits the thin-spun... | |
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