 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...tangles of Neaera's hair? Leuon 158.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...Lettere, has called " questa sete di " fama et gloria, ordinaria infir" mita degli animi generosi." To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 69 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blare, 71 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the... | |
 | George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825 - 314 pages
...wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. while, it would be easy to trace the... | |
 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pages
...enterprises ! ' Fame it the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Tii scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with Hi' abhorred shears And slits the thin-sjiun life ' CHAFFER I. while, it would be easy to trace the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Rut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Pho?bus replied, and touch* d my trembling ears... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd my trembling ears;... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (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... 
