 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...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, 1 ' Steep : ' the mountains of Denbighshire. — 2 ' Mona : ' the Isle... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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 with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...' 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Cornes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...ofNeeera'shair? 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, .Vnd think to burst out into sudden blaze, ' omes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...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 with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 386 pages
..."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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...hair ? 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shesrs, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 376 pages
...spirit doth raise, (That iast infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days j 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, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 186 pages
...are reminded of Milton, who seems clearly to have imitated the passage, while improving it : — " 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, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...70. 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 shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
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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... 
