 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, < r with the tangles ofNemra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, ( omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,'... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...SCHILLER. Farne. 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. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro perculsus... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the tangles of Neiera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirunty of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, • omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,'... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, — That last...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis, in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...Neaera'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 touch'd my trembling ears: " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor in... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Neiera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity of noble mind) 7I art, to nobler end Holy and pure, conformity divine. Those tents thou saw'st Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; . Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...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 - 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... | |
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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... 
