 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...  Cowley, Denham, Milton - Էջ 473խմբագրել է - 1810Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 էջ
...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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 էջ
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 1855 - 644 էջ
...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...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 384 էջ
...latest 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...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 էջ
...Neoera's 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...sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shesrs, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 186 էջ
...are reminded of Milton, who seems clearly to have imitated the passage, while improving it : — " But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." Let the reader look to the passage in the second scene of Act III., where Thrasymachus reports the... | |
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