 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 1291847Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Gisborne Babington - 1842 - 44 Seiten
...harvest of his exertions, this is but the lot of humanity : " The fair guerdon when we hope to find, Comes the blind Fury, with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.''* The edifice which he projected was perhaps too vast to be erected by one individual, or to be completed... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 Seiten
...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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; ts hath also pour'd Inward and outward both, his image...Attends thee ; and each word, each motion, forms; J5or l " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | 1843 - 418 Seiten
...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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." William Bradford Homer was born in Boston, January 31 , 1817. " In his eleventh year he was sent to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...spirit dolh raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; less than wounds immedicable Hankie, and fester, and gangrene, To black mortification thin-spnn life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears j " Fame is no... | |
 | 1844 - 510 Seiten
...unreasoning elegy, why "scorn delights and live laborious days" in the vain pursuit of fame ; seeing that, 'the fair guerdon, when we hope to find. And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with abhorred (hears, And slits the thin-spun life!" But the only fame, which a true ambition is capable... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 Seiten
...when the heart beats high with anticipated success, and the laurel seems already within the grasp, " Comes the blind Fury, with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." All, too, who take pleasure in seeing the decline of exclusiveness and intolerance, and the removal... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 Seiten
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.—" But not the praise" Phcebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | 1845 - 732 Seiten
...spright 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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life ! HUGH SWÏNTON LEGARE was sprung from that honorable... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 Seiten
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noblo mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with tli' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton. Ly ciilat. PETILL. That man that loves... | |
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