 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men.—Saaille. DCXCVII. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, To scorn delights and live laborious days; And think to... | |
 | James Webster - Egypt - 1830 - 414 pages
...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 th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James Webster was born on the 7th of November,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neeera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 55 wisard] on the wisard stream of Deva, consult Warton's note. x 63 swift] Vir. JEn. 1. 321. '... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes - Rhetoric - 1833 - 488 pages
...of expression which strongly brings to our recollection the passage in Milton's Lycidas, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind. I.ycid. 70. their own part, will be plain to us, after we have defined gratuitous benevolence. Now,... | |
 | Aristoteles - 1833 - 450 pages
...of expression which strongly brings to our recollection the passage in Milton's Lycidas, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind. Lycid. 70. their own part, will be plain to us, after we have defined gratuitous benevolence. Now,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...shade, TV \ Or with the tangles of Neacra's hair? J Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (/That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden hhr/e, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn.... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...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 th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.' fParfon. 69 tangles] Benlowes's... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...Tq sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? *Pnm. time. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...fair guer'don* 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... | |
 | Horace Binney - History - 1835 - 86 pages
...affect the power of the states, than Virginia. Her talents, her love of liberty, her love of fame, - the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind,) continued to make her voice earnest, clear, and determined, in asserting the dangers of the federal... | |
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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... 
