| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...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...And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Line 30. "Where were ye f" "Tills burst la its magnificent as it in aflectinff."— Sir E. Brydgti.... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 páginas
...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 fair...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcobus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 páginas
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : £nt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...And slits the thin-spun life,— But not the praise !"— MILTON. LET us look into the apartment of a young lawyer preparing his first great case. The... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 páginas
...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 fair...; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad Rumour lies, But li ves and spreads aloft... | |
| Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 páginas
...Xeara'a 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 touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
| John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 páginas
...Milton say: " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be recorded of the larger portion than that they write... | |
| William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 páginas
...Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankles Muse . . . To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; 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. (64-76) Reminiscent of the complaint that motivates... | |
| 1885 - 1098 páginas
...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 fair...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." 1885.] Musings without Method: MUSINGS WITHOUT METHOD. EPIDEMICS AND ALCOHOL. IF, O reader, you have... | |
| D. S. Carne-Ross - 1985 - 220 páginas
...clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious dayes; 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. (Lycidas, 70-76) Poetry, then, our one means of... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; 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. [67-76] It seems that we have reached here a crest... | |
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