 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...*Pnm. time. 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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Barrow - Iceland - 1835 - 372 pages
...undoubtedly best can tell what poets feel ; and one of our greatest poets has said that " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." But what share of fame, here or hereafter, can the poor Icelandic priest hope for ? He might well ask himself... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 270 pages
...Nesera'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...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 is... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...it. ADD1SON. 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...And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise TO (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...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
...— " 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 life. But not the praise,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Neaera's hair ? 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. .En. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga prtevertitur Hebrum.' Warton.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 ; But the...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Ncirra's hair Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily of noble mind) 71 ГО. PRIOR. САКТО Ш. Yet, if these finer whims...spoil the engine of digestion, And you entirely Ձ Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling cars ; " Faino is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor... | |
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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... 
