| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 368 Seiten
...SBieberfyall. SCHILLER. fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of nohle mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ;...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears. MILTON.... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 704 Seiten
...the shade, Or with the tangles of NeaBra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights,...fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst oat into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred sheers, And slits the thin-spun life.... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 Seiten
...Neiera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirunty of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, • omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,'... | |
| 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...blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J my trembling ears;... | |
| 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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears:... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...Neaera'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...blaze, Comes the- blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
| 1852 - 874 Seiten
...Neiera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise {That last infirmity of noble mind) 7I art, to nobler end Holy and pure, conformity divine. Those tents thou saw'st And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. ****** To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury, with abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my... | |
| 1853 - 560 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,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched... | |
| John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 Seiten
...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — * ' Mona : ' the Isle of Man. — * 'Deva:' the English... | |
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