| John Milton - 1850 - 570 Seiten
...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, and live laborious day; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes to... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...hair ? 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 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... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 508 Seiten
...fpirit doth raife 70 (That laft infirmity of Noble mind) To fcorn delights, and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burft out into fudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred (hears, And flits the thin fpun... | |
| 1847 - 608 Seiten
...pictured by our great Epic poet, in his " Lycidas,"— " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To ecorn delights, and live laborious... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 500 Seiten
...fpirit doth raife 7° (That laft infirmity of Noble mind) To fcorn delights, and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burft out into fudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred fhears, And flits the thin fpun... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...Nesera's hair? 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 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... | |
| D. S. Carne-Ross - 1985 - 220 Seiten
...roughly comparable passage from our own tradition: Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1986 - 308 Seiten
...which Milton had confronted the same moral dilemma: Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. ('Lycidas' (1637), 11. 70-2) Marvell's nod in the direction of'Lycidas' comes in a passage of wry 198... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...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, and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the... | |
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