 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 365edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...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, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...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 life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the f.iii guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred sheers, And slits the «6/n-spim life. Mi.'tvn. 77>/n-leaved arbute hazle-grafls receives, And planes... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...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...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Pheebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 388 pages
...the expression Blind Fury, in Lycidas; as it was not taken from the authority of ancient mythology. Comes the Blind Fury, with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Spenser, If the blind furie, which warres breedeth oft, Wonts not, &c. — — — — So Sackville,... | |
 | John Opie - Painting - 1809 - 312 pages
...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 abhorred, shears, And slits the thin spualLfe." — FEW men have attained to eminence by a more irregular... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 life. " But not the praise,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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, Audslitsthe thin-spun life. "But not the praise — (Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...noble mind) To icorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to ('mil, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th1 abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcebus reply'd, and touch'd... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...that it xvas usual to cut off the hair of the patients ; as insinuated perhaps by line 76, Lycidas, " Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." Conformable to which is the remarkable statement at the end of the fourth .'I'jicii! concerning the... | |
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