 | George Clinton - 1828 - Страниц: 888
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Страниц: 354
...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...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in... | |
 | Thucydides - 1829 - Страниц: 588
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The... | |
 | James Webster - 1830 - Страниц: 414
...Lycidas." " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - Страниц: 498
...care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? WTere it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.' fParfon.... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - Страниц: 498
...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,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Wtaion.... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - Страниц: 432
...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...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 life. Hut not the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - Страниц: 484
...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...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil,... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 558
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Ncrera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
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Neaera's hair ? 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... 
