 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To uent ; for God on thee Abundantly his gifts hath also...Attends thee ; and each word, each motion, forms; J5or l " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | Theology - 1843 - 424 pages
...struggles. " 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." William Bradford Homer was born in Boston, January 31 , 1817. " In his eleventh year he was sent to... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...Neaera'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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit dolh raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To ld, Warble his thin-spnn life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears j " Fame is no... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...hair! Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To sconi ' But not the praise,' Phoobus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears; ' Käme is no plant that grows... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 510 pages
...unreasoning elegy, why "scorn delights and live laborious days" in the vain pursuit of fame ; seeing that, 'the fair guerdon, when we hope to find. And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with abhorred (hears, And slits the thin-spun life!" But the only fame, which a true ambition is capable... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1844 - 574 pages
...when the heart beats high with anticipated success, and the laurel seems already within the grasp, " Comes the blind Fury, with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." All, too, who take pleasure in seeing the decline of exclusiveness and intolerance, and the removal... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the Jspur that the clear spright doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days : But the fair...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life ! HUGH SWÏNTON LEGARE was sprung from that honorable... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...JVetsra's hair 1 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.—" Hut not the praise," Phrebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...Neeera'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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.—" But not the praise" Phcebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
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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... 
