 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...his Lycidast " 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...blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The phrase ¿катцуш r/)c ápxñc... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Saville. Dcxcvn. 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...burst out into sudden 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... | |
 | James Webster - Egypt - 1830 - 414 pages
...Lycidas." " 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...blind fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James Webster was born on the 7th of November,... | |
 | Richard Warner - Authors - 1830 - 420 pages
...and lived laborious " days' for the sake of ' Fame, " ' (That last infirmity of noble mind) " ' Then, the fair guerdon when we hope to find, " ' And think...burst out into sudden blaze, " ' Comes the blind fury, ' " in the shape of brutish ignorance ; stubborn " prejudice; or false taste ; quashes all our hopes;... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...subesset ingens Cupido gloria qua etiam sapientibus novisiima exuitur." Stradse Prelu. p. 161. ed. Ox. To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 74 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise,... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...verse:. — " 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 bunt out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...Nesera's hair ? 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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Wtaion. 69 tangles] Benlowes's... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...novissima exuitur." Strodse Prelu. p. 161. ed. Ox. 74 blaze] So P. Reg. iii. 47. And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor... | |
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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... 
