| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 páginas
...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...is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
| 1852 - 874 páginas
...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 gliEtering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...Neœra's hairî 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. ' Hut not the praise,' l'hœbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 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...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... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1855 - 384 páginas
...latest times : "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...And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise. ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 páginas
...spirit doth raise, (That iast infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days j But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...And slits the thin-spun life. * But not the praise. ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 páginas
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity of noble minds — ) touched my trembling cars ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...tear. Line 70. 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 101. Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark. Line 109. The pilot of the Galilean lake.... | |
| 1856 - 374 páginas
...spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; hut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to Hi' world, nor... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 páginas
...thankless Muse ! Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise (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... | |
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