 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 páginas
...Neœra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 páginas
...pure immortal Streams. TETJE FAME— BY THE SAME. FAME is the spur that the clear Spirit doth raise, That last Infirmity of noble Mind, To scorn Delights,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun Life. " But not the praise," Phoabus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 230 páginas
...Sectanti, ac tortis digitum impediisse capillis? i Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears;... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 páginas
...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,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...Spur to Action. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | 1863 - 326 páginas
...and cuts its course forever. THE THREAD OF LIFE. FAME is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...blaze, 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1909 - 502 páginas
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | 1885 - 1098 páginas
...memory and heroic example still remain with us. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." 1885.] Musings without Method: MUSINGS WITHOUT METHOD. EPIDEMICS AND... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 páginas
...directly to the traditional motivation for poetry, 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 th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. (lines 70-6) But the fame topos is given a striking... | |
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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 the abhorred... 
