 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
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - English poetry - 1866 - 320 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...thin-spun 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... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...Neara'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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life: there is nothing here dramatic, nothing weird, although it is all most beautiful. And so, lastly, there... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...Lycidas : — 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. How much the world is indebted to the " blind old master of English song," it would be impossible to... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spire 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 glittering foil Set off to the world,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...70 : — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last intu miry 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...— continued. Fame is the spur that the clear sp'rit 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. Milton, Lycidiu, 70. There is a tall long-sided dame, — But wondrous light — ycleped fame, That... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days: But the fair g jcrdon, when we hope to find, And think to burst out into...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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...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-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 978 pages
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and lire laborious days ; But the fair guerdon, when we hope...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." ' • With an old friend of his, John Smith, a fellow teacher, from Durham, who had visited him in... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...Nesera'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...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and toueh'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
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