 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 страница
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days : £nt the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...And slits the thin-spun life,— But not the praise !"— MILTON. LET us look into the apartment of a young lawyer preparing his first great case. The... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 страница
...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor on the glistering foil... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 страница
...well does Milton say: " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious...shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be recorded of the larger portion than that they write... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 страница
...shade, Or with the tangles of Ne;pra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...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... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 страница
...enchanting son? Whom universal Nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. MILTON. Па тго/с' ар' %(г6' ока A.á(pvK етакето ', Qvae... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1859 - 268 страница
...verse ; and therefore it continually tortures the ear. 1 See Lycidas, line 70, et seq. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." 2 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22d of Milton's Sonnets. Admires two songs... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 страница
...sloth. True Fame has been beautifully pictured by our great Epic poet, in his " Lycidas :" " 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, Phcebus replied, and touched... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 страница
...Or with the tangles of N'esera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That list infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 страница
...Or with the tangles of Nosera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That l»st infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live...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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1859 - 612 страница
...fulfilled all the hopes of his youth; the other — we can only speak of him with unbidden tears. ' But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...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 has been as a writer... | |
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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... 
