| John Milton - 1853 - 372 էջ
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 էջ
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nert-ra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise,'1 Line so. " Wliere were ye T" " This burnt Is as magnificent as It la affecting."— Sir E.... | |
| John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 էջ
...passage ? — ' 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 էջ
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera'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 touched my trembling ears;... | |
| 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...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 on mortal soil, Nor... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...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 on mortal soil, Nor... | |
| 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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." Let the reader look to the passage in the second scene of Act III.,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 էջ
...Without the meed of some melodious tear. Line 70. 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. Line 101. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark. Line 109.... | |
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