 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...not better don as others ufe, To fport with Amaryllis in the made, Or with the tangles of Near -a 's hair ? Fame is the fpur that the clear fpirit doth...Noble mind) To fcorn delights, and live laborious dayes ; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burft out into fudden blaze, Comes... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...p. 58. Shirley's Doubtful Heir. p. 36. G. Peele's Works, ed. Dyce, 1829, ip 17. ii. p. 11. C"o scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, f\.nd. think to burst out into sudden blaze, 74 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And.... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 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, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — 2 ' Mona : ' the Isle... | |
| |
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... 
