 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Medical students - 1855 - 156 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days; Bnt 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. IV. [From the Boston Transcript.] A vivid sorrow... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nercca's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling cars ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...tear. Line 70. 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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Line 101. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark. Line 109. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...the spur that tho clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) 1 «. „ To acorn delights, and live laborious days; '-!••' , But...sudden blaze, . Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shear?, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," line 50. *' Where were ye I" "This... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 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...think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury1 with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Norœa's hair ? Fame is the s ; the penetrative wo hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ! Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of...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 in... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...Neicra'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...And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la its magnificent as it in aflectinff."— Sir E. Brydgti.... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : £nt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...And slits the thin-spun life,— But not the praise !"— MILTON. LET us look into the apartment of a young lawyer preparing his first great case. The... | |
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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... 
