 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...  Cowley, Denham, Milton - Page 473edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity of noble minds — ) touched my trembling cars ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...tear. Line 70. 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 101. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark. Line 109. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; hut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to Hi' world, nor... | |
 | 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...sudden blaze, . Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shear?, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," line 50. *' Where were ye I" "This... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...infirmity of noble minds — To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when wo et Autumn spread his treasures to the sun, Luxuriant...turbulent domain, Your empire owns, and from a th Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fume is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...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...think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury1 with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...thankless Muse ! 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...Neicra'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...And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la its magnificent as it in aflectinff."— Sir E. Brydgti.... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : £nt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...And slits the thin-spun life,— But not the praise !"— MILTON. LET us look into the apartment of a young lawyer preparing his first great case. The... | |
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