 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...  The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 159by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity of noble minds — To scorn f hQ 1PQ 1 8Q 1 burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | 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...fair guerdon when we hope to find, / , And think to burst out into sudden blaze, . Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shear?, 75 And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...! Fame is the spur which 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... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
..." Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a 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... | |
 | England - 1885 - 1098 pages
...us. " 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... | |
 | D. S. Carne-Ross - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 220 pages
...clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious dayes; 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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; 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... | |
 | Claudine Guégan Fisher - Law - 1988 - 396 pages
...spirit doth ralse (That last inflrmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find And think to burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th' abhored shears And sllts the thin-spun life.... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 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... | |
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