 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...Neœra's hairî 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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' Hut not the praise,' l'hœbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...Nesera'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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 380 pages
...Nesera'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...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — * ' Mona : ' the Isle of Man. — • 'Deva:' the... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...Nesera'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...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — 2 ' Mona : ' the Isle of Man. — * 'Deva:' the English... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...guerdon when we hope to find, .Vnd think to burst out into sudden blaze, ' omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But...; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil, Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...? — ' 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...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Cornes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Nesera'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..." Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 386 pages
...times : "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 fair...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 the world, nor... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 pages
...spirit doth raise, (That iast infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days j But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...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 the world, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Ncaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise," ?That last infirmity of noble mind) о scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blaze/ Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,* " gination seeme to have been in some measure warmed, and perhaps directed to these objects, by reading... | |
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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... 
