 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
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Spur to Action. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...THREAD OF LIFE. 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...Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And clips the well-spun life. MILTON. • •miNEMESIS. O THOtT who never yet of human wrong Left the unbalanced... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...hair. 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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Neaera's 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...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 7o (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...life.—" But not the praise," — Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, "Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...Nesera's 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...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,... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 pages
...impediisse capillis? 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...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...tear. Line 14 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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Line 70. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark.' Line 101. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...Nesera's hair? 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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-span life. " But not the praise," LJIM M. •' Where were ye I" "This burst Is... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...Neaera's 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...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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