 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
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 páginas
...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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 páginas
...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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be recorded of the larger portion... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...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, 15 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Une so. w Where were ye I" "This bunt Isas... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 páginas
...noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Bat, 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." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what has just been said, and telling... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1859 - 612 páginas
...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...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life, — but not the praise.' " From the man, let us now turn to the works of the poet. His chief reputation... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 páginas
...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...the abhorred shears. And slits the thin-spun life." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's Sonnets. 4 By the son of... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 páginas
...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...Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun Míe." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what lias just been said,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...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 blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. — " But not the praitt," Phoebus reply'd, and... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 páginas
...qualities. 73. guerdon, ie reward. A frequent term in Spenser. 74. blaze, ie flame of glory and fame. Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun, life. ' But not the praise/ Pboebus replied, and touehed my trembling ears. ' Fame is no plant that grows... | |
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