 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...  Cowley, Denham, Milton - Page 473edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 pages
...BY THE SAME. 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...And slits the thin-spun Life. " But not the praise," Phoabus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Spur to Action. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 326 pages
...THREAD OF LIFE. 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...Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And clips the well-spun life. MILTON. • •miNEMESIS. O THOtT who never yet of human wrong Left the unbalanced... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 7o (That last infirmity of noble minds) 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... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 pages
...impediisse capillis? 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...tear. Line 14 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 70. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark.' Line 101. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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 the abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-span life. " But not the praise," LJIM M. •' Where were ye I" "This burst Is... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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 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... | |
 | England - 1885 - 1098 pages
...remain with us. " 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." 1885.] Musings without Method: MUSINGS WITHOUT METHOD. EPIDEMICS AND ALCOHOL. IF, O reader, you have... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...poetry, Fame: 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 th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. (lines 70-6) But the fame topos is given a striking... | |
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