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... Extracts from English Literature - Página 80por John Rolfe - 1867 - 383 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 páginas
...spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope...thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd my trembling ears; , Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil,... | |
| 1828 - 598 páginas
...great poet : ' 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 páginas
...great poet : ' 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 páginas
...great poet : ' 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise '. we may safely add — for that... | |
| George Clinton - 1828 - 888 páginas
...enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...Saville. Dcxcvn. 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; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in... | |
| Thucydides - 1829 - 588 páginas
...his Lycidast " 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The... | |
| James Webster - 1830 - 414 páginas
...as justly applicable, as they were to his own friend, the " much lovM Lycidas." " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 páginas
...subesset ingens Cupido gloria qua etiam sapientibus novisiima exuitur." Stradse Prelu. p. 161. ed. Ox. To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 74 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 páginas
...*Pnm. time. 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,... | |
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