| James Webster - 1830 - 414 ページ
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James... | |
| 1832 - 406 ページ
...lamentation, is one of the finest passages in the whole compass of English verse:. — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to bunt out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 498 ページ
...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.' fParfon.... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 498 ページ
...shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Wtaion.... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 ページ
...shade, TV \ Or with the tangles of Neacra's hair? J Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (/That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden hhr/e, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. Hut not the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 286 ページ
...must finally be a revolution of all that has been called * Turn to Milton's Lycidas, sixth stanza. " Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 270 ページ
...must finally be a revolution of all that has been called * Turn to Milton's Lycidas, sixth stanza. " Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And sins the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; Fame is... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 ページ
...stand up, in a corrupt age, for what has not its immediate reward joined to it. ADD1SON. FAME is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
| 1838 - 1050 ページ
...of Phoebus to his lamentation, furnishes a beautiful specimen of this poem : — •• Fame to the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...we hope to find. And think to burst out into sudden blaxe, Com« the blind fury with th' abhorr'd shear*. And slits the thin spun life. But not the praise,... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 496 ページ
...shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise TO (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 Vir. jEn. 1. 381. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Warlon. 69 tangles]... | |
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