...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 shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched...

...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 shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd...

...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 shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists,...

...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...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears." is a singular idea to cling with such tenacity to...

...noble mindi) 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...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. — " But not the praitt," Phoebus reply'd, and touth'd my trembling ear* ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil,...

...other — we can only speak of him with unbidden tears. ' But 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 life, — but not the praise.' " From the man, let us...

...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 shears. And slits the thin-spun life." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the...

...war. For him, Milton's lines in Lycidas would be very apt: But the fair Guerdon when we hope to hnd And think to burst out into sudden blaze Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears And slits the thin spun life. for it seems that he was just about to reach new heights...

...Noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious dayes; 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 spun life. (Lycidas, 70-76) Poetry, then, our one means of escaping the big dark, cannot be trusted;...

...Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; 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 spun life. [67-76] It seems that we have reached here a crest...