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" 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred... "
The poetical works of John Milton, with a life of the author by A. Chalmers ... - Page 472
by John Milton - 1881
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

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...
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Sabrinae corolla in hortulis regiae scholae Salopiensis contextuerunt tres ...

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...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney

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...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

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...
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Licida, di Giovanni Milton: Mondodia per la morte del naufragato Eduardo King

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...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 88

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...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 17

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...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

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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