 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...  A Manual of English Literature... - Σελίδα 448των Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 547 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 σελίδες
...shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise TO (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 Vir. jEn. 1. 381. ' Volucremque fuga prsevertitur Hebrum.' Warlon. 69 tangles]... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 σελίδες
...To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Necero's hair ? Fame is the spur, which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of...To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the bright guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury,... | |
 | 1847 - 608 σελίδες
...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 of noble mind) To ecorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1838 - 422 σελίδες
...clear spirit doth raise, (That lael infirmity of nohle minds) To scorn >ielight, and five lahorious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to hurst out into sudden hlaze. Conies the hlind fury with th' ahhorred eticare, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 σελίδες
...shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera'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. .En. 1. 321. ' Volucremque fuga prtevertitur Hebrum.' Warton.... | |
 | Graves Champney Haughton - 1839 - 294 σελίδες
...following passage ; which differs from the sentiment contained in that just quoted : — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delight, and live laborious days." Here the religious persuasions of Milton have led him to undervalue... | |
 | Graves Chamney Haughton (Sir) - 1839 - 292 σελίδες
...following passage ; which differs from the sentiment contained in that just quoted:— " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delight, and live laborious days." Here the religious persuasions of Milton have led him to undervalue... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 510 σελίδες
...books he had written these mottoes : AAAA TAP ESTIN MOTZA KA1 HMIN. Eump. Medea. 1091. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds), To worn delight and live latiorious days. MILTON'S Lyeidas, 70. Under these lines was placed... | |
 | 1839 - 882 σελίδες
...Pennant's Tours in Wales, vol. ip 257, edit. 1Я10. Are not Milton's celebrated lines, " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,)" taken from Tacitus ? He says, Etiam sapientibus, cupido yloriœ novissima ел-nitur. ERRATA.... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 σελίδες
...fire." Milton thus excuses desire when it takes the shape of the love of distinction : — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days."* Disgust and aversion, the extreme of desire, are most proper emotions when deeds and principles of... | |
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