 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
...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...blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 266 pages
...tortures the ear. 3 See Lycidas, line 70, et seq. " 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." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of N Basra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to bnrst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...Or with the tangles of Nosera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That l»st infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun Míe." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...pictured by our great Epic poet, in his "Lycidas:" " 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. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise •;"/'.',,,,» l,i-! infirmity of noble mindi) 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 praitt," Phoebus reply'd, and... | |
 | 1885 - 1098 pages
...memory and heroic example still remain with us. " 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." 1885.] Musings without Method: MUSINGS WITHOUT METHOD. EPIDEMICS AND... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...directly to the traditional motivation for poetry, Fame: 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. (lines 70-6) But the fame topos is given a striking... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...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 pages
...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...blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. (73^76) The word 'we' brings King back into the picture, and Milton is... | |
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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... 
