 | 1828 - 598 pages
...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1828 - 924 pages
...religious influence puts into the hands of government should not be constantly perverted by * Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. LYCIDAS. VOL. H. C government to its own purposes; and in this inevitable abuse we discern another... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - Bible - 1828 - 830 pages
...observes that that interpretation * Thus Milton, in a fine passage of his exquisite Lycidas : Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. See also Paradise Regained, L. HI. sit. init. and... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - 588 pages
...passages were probably in the mind of Milton, in those matchless verses of his Lycidast " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men — Saville. Dcxcvn. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...Spaarr. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit duth ruy To scorn delights, and live laborious day* ; B«t the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...bunt out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred theeis, And slits the thin-spun life. Afiitm. Fame is the thirst of youth, — bat I am... | |
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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... 
