 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...  The Christian Examiner - Página 1061843Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 páginas
...noble minds) 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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears : " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, ester, and gangrene, To black mortification thin-spnn life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears j " Fame is no... | |
 | 1854 - 444 páginas
...noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon, where we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise. * * * * * Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foit... | |
 | 1844 - 510 páginas
...laborious days" in the vain pursuit of fame ; seeing that, 'the fair guerdon, when we hope to find. And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with abhorred (hears, And slits the thin-spun life!" But the only fame, which a true ambition is capable... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 páginas
...when the heart beats high with anticipated success, and the laurel seems already within the grasp, " Comes the blind Fury, with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." All, too, who take pleasure in seeing the decline of exclusiveness and intolerance, and the removal... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...noble minds) 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 th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.—" Hut not the praise," Phrebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | 1845 - 732 páginas
...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 th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life ! HUGH SWÏNTON LEGARE was sprung from that honorable... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 páginas
...noble minds) 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 th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.—"But not the praise" Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 páginas
...noblo 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 tli' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton. Ly ciilat. PETILL. That man that loves... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...noble minds) 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 th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.—" But not the praise," Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
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