 | 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... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 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...is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies; But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 pages
...impediisse capillis? 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...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 - 1865 - 504 pages
...tear. Line 14 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. Line 70. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark.' Line 101. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 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...is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1866 - 320 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...thin-spun 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...Lycidas : — 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. How much the world is indebted to the " blind old master of English song," it would be impossible to... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...Neara'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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life: there is nothing here dramatic, nothing weird, although it is all most beautiful. And so, lastly, there... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spire that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the...is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glittering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...70 : — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last intu miry of noble mind,) 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... | |
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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... 
