 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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 - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...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...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — * ' Mona : ' the Isle of Man. — • 'Deva:' the... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...tresses.' p. 58. Shirley's Doubtful Heir, p. 36. G. Peele's Works, ed. Dyce, 1829, i, p. 17. ii. p. 11. To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 7* Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. — Shakspere. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guardian, when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...and refute the ill-natured critic's remarks. What can be finer than this passage ? — ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, r with the tangles ofNeeera'shair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, .Vnd think to burst out into sudden blaze, ' omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neoera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...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 - 644 pages
...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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
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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... 
