 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 sider
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Vates... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 sider
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 sider
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, Audslitsthe thin-spun life. "But not the praise — (Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | 1847 - 798 sider
...SMITH, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER- AT-tAW. BY SAMUEL WARREN, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTBR-AT-LAW. But the fair guerdon •when we hope to find, And...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. MILTON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith, barrister-at-law,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sider
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sider
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 sider
...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...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 sider
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; Rut the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Pho?bus replied, and touch* d my trembling ears... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 sider
...clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise/ Phoebus replied, and tonch'd my trembling ears;... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sider
...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...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 on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
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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... 
