 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...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,...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 « swift] Vir. .En.... | |
 | Graves Chamney Haughton (Sir) - 1839 - 292 pages
...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 Champney Haughton - 1839 - 294 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 infirmity...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... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...Ncirra's hair Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily of noble mind) 71 ГО. PRIOR. САКТО Ш. Yet, if these finer whims are gone, Your clock, though plain, would sti burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nescra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days.'' For ever sacred be the place that has part in... | |
 | 1843 - 418 pages
...of a mind too fervid and too active for the body, within which it burns and struggles. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...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... 
