 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury...  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 408by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...within it. The following eloquent passage contains a line that has almost passed into a proverb : — " Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 pages
...mos est aliis,) Amaryllida sive Neseram Sectanti, ac tortia digitum impediisse capillis? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 pages
...bade thee rest, And drink thy fill of pure immortal Streams. TETJE FAME— BY THE SAME. FAME is the spur that the clear Spirit doth raise, That last Infirmity...And slits the thin-spun Life. " But not the praise," Phoabus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Spur to Action. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...shears which sever That slender thread, — and cuts its course forever. THE THREAD OF LIFE. FAME is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And clips the well-spun life. MILTON. • •miNEMESIS. O THOtT who never yet of human wrong Left the unbalanced... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Neara's hair? To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, ,55 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 7iJ And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 7o (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...life.—" But not the praise," — Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, "Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 pages
...mos est aliis,) Amaryllida sive Neseram Sectanti, ac tortis digitum impediisse capillis? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...lute. Lme's Lalor 's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3. Without the meed of some melodious tear. Line 14 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Line 70. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark.' Line 101. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-span life. " But not the praise," LJIM M. •' Where were ye I" "This burst Is... | |
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