| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 fair guerdon when 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... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...? 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 Vir. jEn. 1. 381. '... | |
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