 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...  Memoirs of the life and writings of lord Byron - Pagina 3door George Clinton (biographer of Byron.) - 1825Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagina’s
...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pagina’s
...often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men.—Saaille. DCXCVII. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, To scorn delights and live laborious days; And think to... | |
 | James Webster - 1830 - 414 pagina’s
...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...blind fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James Webster was born on the 7th of... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1830 - 420 pagina’s
...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;... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 358 pagina’s
...departments in the art painfully irksome and annoying. " ' But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.' " Having not quite finished his 27th year, he died calmly on the 23d of September, 1828, and was interred... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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. '... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes - 1833 - 488 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Aristoteles - 1833 - 450 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pagina’s
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ' (That last...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. jEn. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.' fParfon. 69 tangles] Benlowes's... | |
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