 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 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 on... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 pages
...Xeara'a 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... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
...Milton say: " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be recorded of the larger portion than that they write... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...Ne;pra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 15 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Une so. w Where were ye I" "This bunt Isas... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...N'esera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That list infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But, the...the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what has just been said, and telling... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Authors - 1859 - 268 pages
...70, et seq. " 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." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's Sonnets. 4 By the son of... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 226 pages
...Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankles Muse . . . To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life. (64-76) Reminiscent of the complaint that motivates... | |
 | England - 1885 - 1098 pages
...remain with us. " 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." 1885.] Musings without Method: MUSINGS WITHOUT METHOD. EPIDEMICS AND ALCOHOL. IF, O reader, you have... | |
 | D. S. Carne-Ross - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 220 pages
...clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life. (Lycidas, 70-76) Poetry, then, our one means of... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life. [67-76] It seems that we have reached here a crest... | |
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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... 
