 | 1828 - 598 pages
...' 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... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...Lycidast " 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 Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Dcxcvn. 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... | |
 | James Webster - Egypt - 1830 - 414 pages
...Lycidas." " 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 th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...— " 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 bunt out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...ingens Cupido gloria qua etiam sapientibus novisiima exuitur." Stradse Prelu. p. 161. ed. Ox. To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 74 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...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 fair guer'don* 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... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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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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... 
