| John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...5ßon meineê gebenê SBieberl)all. SCHILLER. Fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Pheebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
| Thomas Zouch - 1809 - 414 pages
...noble structure moulders into dissolution. »' Fame is ihe spur that the clear spirit doth raise " To scorn delights, and live laborious days : " But...th' abhorred shears " And slits the thin-spun life." Mihon's Ijycidas. « If it had pleased Divine Providence to have protracted the term of his earthly... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Lesbian shore ? Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
| John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, Audslitsthe thin-spun life. "But not the praise — (Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden bluze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And...is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the gliit'ring foil, Set off to th' world : nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
| 1860 - 796 pages
...a bubble. What says your favourite Milton ?— ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...th" abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life -' " "Ah, but," said Carlton, "you must not omit the answer, and a noble one it is — ' But not the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...tangles of Neaera's hair? Leuon 158.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched... | |
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