 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 life.  Chaucer to Burns - Page 112edited by - 1876Full view - About this book
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...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's )r enemy, while God was ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to the world,... | |
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...Neaera's hair ? 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...praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world,... | |
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...Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Netera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit dolh sock be on. Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his thin-spnn life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears j " Fame is no... | |
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...hair ? 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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
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