 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 ページ
...care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse? WTere it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 ページ
...shade, Or with the tangles of Neicra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...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.... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 ページ
...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... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 ページ
...meditate the thankless muse ? To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Xeara'a hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...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... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 ページ
...well does Milton say: " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be recorded of the larger portion than that they write... | |
 | 1885 - 1098 ページ
...by the wells of Gakdul, his cherished memory and heroic example still remain with us. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." 1885.] Musings without Method: MUSINGS WITHOUT METHOD. EPIDEMICS AND ALCOHOL. IF, O reader, you have... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 ページ
...Rejecting the erotic, Milton moves directly to the traditional motivation for poetry, Fame: 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. (lines 70-6) But the fame topos is given a striking... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 ページ
...hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scom delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon...burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th 'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Phoebus repli'd, and touch... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 ページ
...not confided to Diodati his dreams of immortality? Edward King, too, must have hoped for fame, Out the fair guerdon when we hope to find And think to...the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. (73^76) The word 'we' brings King back into the picture, and Milton is reminded of heavenly rewards.... | |
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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... 
