 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...  Examinations Papers - Pagina 4381896Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | James Webster - 1830 - 414 pagine
...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... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1830 - 420 pagine
...and lived laborious " days' for the sake of ' Fame, " ' (That last infirmity of noble mind) " ' Then, the fair guerdon when we hope to find, " ' And think...burst out into sudden blaze, " ' Comes the blind fury, ' " in the shape of brutish ignorance ; stubborn " prejudice; or false taste ; quashes all our hopes;... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagine
...lamentation, is one of the finest passages in the whole compass of English verse:. — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to bunt out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pagine
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neeera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 55 wisard] on the wisard stream of Deva, consult Warton's note. x 63 swift] Vir. JEn. 1. 321. '... | |
 | Aristoteles - 1833 - 452 pagine
...of expression which strongly brings to our recollection the passage in Milton's Lycidas, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind. Lycid. 70. their own part, will be plain to us, after we have defined gratuitous benevolence. Now,... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes - 1833 - 488 pagine
...of expression which strongly brings to our recollection the passage in Milton's Lycidas, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind. I.ycid. 70. their own part, will be plain to us, after we have defined gratuitous benevolence. Now,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 500 pagine
...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 - 432 pagine
...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 - 484 pagine
...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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pagine
...clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days; (That last infirmity of noble mind,) But the fair guer'don* when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,... | |
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