 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 lehte
...— Saville. Dcxcvn. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 lehte
...verses of his Lycidast " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ;...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... | |
 | James Webster - 1830 - 414 lehte
...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... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1830 - 420 lehte
...and lived laborious " days' for the sake of ' Fame, " ' (That last infirmity of noble mind) " ' Then, the fair guerdon when we hope to find, " ' And think...burst out into sudden blaze, " ' Comes the blind fury, ' " in the shape of brutish ignorance ; stubborn " prejudice; or false taste ; quashes all our hopes;... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 lehte
...subesset ingens Cupido gloria qua etiam sapientibus novisiima exuitur." Stradse Prelu. p. 161. ed. Ox. To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 74 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise,... | |
 | 1832 - 406 lehte
...English verse:. — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ;...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 Pierpont - 1835 - 484 lehte
...hair ? * Pi-en, time. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights and live laborious days ;...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 lehte
...clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days; (That last infirmity of noble mind,) But the fair guer'don* when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 lehte
...joined to it. ADD1SON. FAME is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days :...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 lehte
...Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise TO (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ;...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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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... 
