 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...  Cassell's illustrated readings - Seite 67von Cassell, ltd - 1875Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 Seiten
...spirit doth raise, (That iast infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days j But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...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 the world, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 Seiten
...Ncaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise," ?That last infirmity of noble mind) о scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blaze/ Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,* " gination seeme to have been in some measure warmed, and perhaps directed to these objects, by reading... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 186 Seiten
...are reminded of Milton, who seems clearly to have imitated the passage, while improving it : — " But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." Let the reader look to the passage in the second scene of Act III., where Thrasymachus reports the... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1855 - 156 Seiten
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days; Bnt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. IV. [From the Boston Transcript.] A vivid sorrow... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 Seiten
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nercca's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling cars ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...tear. Line 70. 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 101. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark. Line 109. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | 1856 - 374 Seiten
...spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; hut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...shears, 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 Hi' world, nor... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 Seiten
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Norœa's Delicious, breathes ; the penetrative wo hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...the spur that tho clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) 1 «. „ To acorn delights, and live laborious days; '-!••' , But...sudden blaze, . Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shear?, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," line 50. *' Where were ye I" "This... | |
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