| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scom 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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.), Felix Frankfurter - Judges - 1996 - 360 pages
...hope that the "fury with the abhorred shears" will defer her snip for a time.1 Yours as ever, OWH 1. 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-spin... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...'Lycidas' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn d my burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
| Susan Snyder - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...development, fulfillment, close. But instead, order and preparation are mocked by a terrifying randomness: 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... | |
| Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 288 pages
...fame: 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 th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
| Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne, Meditation, XVII (1624) H 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 life.... | |
| Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 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 th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
| Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...man: 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 th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise0 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,0 And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,0 And... | |
| 2005 - 334 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 th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
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