 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 páginas
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last...blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; Fame is no plant... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 páginas
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Rut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Pho?bus replied, and touch*... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 páginas
...undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate.' Thus it is that, ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...mind,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days.' But leaving the individual adventurer out of the question, the very spirit of enterprize, which such undertakings... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 páginas
...this title. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Faroe is the 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 to find, And think to burst out into sudden... | |
 | 1828 - 598 páginas
...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that will attach to the name of Colling wood as long... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 páginas
...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from a family more remarkable for its antiquity, and for... | |
 | 1828 - 924 páginas
...religious influence puts into the hands of government should not be constantly perverted by * Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. LYCIDAS. VOL. H. C government to its own purposes; and in this inevitable abuse we discern another... | |
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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... 
