 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 ページ
...enterprises ! ' Fame it the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Tii scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with Hi' abhorred shears And slits the thin-sjiun life ' CHAFFER I. while, it would be easy to trace the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 ページ
...that have done ? What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore, The muse herself for her inchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 ページ
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Rut 徫 삀 π w ݔ ... 삀 0 ǀ L Ɖ $ & Pho?bus replied, and touch* d my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 ページ
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope...thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd my trembling ears; , Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil,... | |
 | 1828 - 598 ページ
...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 ページ
...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 ページ
...often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men — Saville. Dcxcvn. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...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 th' world, nor in... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 ページ
...passages were probably in the mind of Milton, in those matchless verses of his Lycidast " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The... | |
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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... 
