 | 1846 - 506 ページ
...has fulfilled all the hopes of his youth ; the other, we can only speak of him with unbidden tears. " But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not tie praise." INDEX TO FIRST VOLUME. America, a Working man's recollections of, 97. Axe and the Gibbet,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 ページ
...incessant care. To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse7 Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...incessant care To lend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse i visibly, and Phrcbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost shear», And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling... | |
 | 1847 - 806 ページ
...OF TiIE INNER TEMPLE, RARRISTER-AT-LAW. RT SAMUEL WARREN, OF TUR INNER TEMPLE, DARRISTER-AT-LAW. Bat the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. M U.TON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith, barrister-at-law, of the Inner Temple, now appears,... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 ページ
...füllte felbft baa ©eclenlofe 5ßon meince йсЬспб SEßteberljall. SCHILLER. Farne. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro perculsus amore, Pygmalion... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 368 ページ
...SBieberfyall. SCHILLER. fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of nohle mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ;...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears. MILTON. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 ページ
...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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | 1852 - 874 ページ
...Neiera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity of noble mind) 7I art, to nobler end Holy and pure, conformity divine. Those tents thou saw'st gliEtering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 ページ
...watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. ****** To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury, with abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my... | |
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Neaera'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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury... 
