...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...

...studying the law a year or two, in the Temple, he travelled abroad, and died at Athens. " Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to gain, And think to burst forth into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And...

...Athens. " Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit «l©th jraase, (That last infirmity >©f noble Blind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to gain, And think to burst forth into sudden blaze, Conies 'the Wind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And...

...that best reward of their literary labours, (independently of their expeditious sale,) "THAT FAME, the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, " (That last infirmity of noble minds) " To scorn delight, and live laborious days,* blow out their midnight lamp, and extinguish their...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shad*, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fnme is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...

...will tell you that it is no better than a bubble. What says your favourite Milton ?— ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th" abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life -' " "Ah, but," said Carlton, "you must not omit the answer, and a noble one it is — ' But not the...

...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. MILTON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith,...

...lion's mane." But to Tasso, how forcibly do the following pathetick lines of Lycidas apply. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delight and live laborious days. But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, Ainl...

...o Or with the tangles of Nesra's hair ? ., L Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise L . (That last infirmity of noble mind) / To scorn delights,...find, £ • And think to burst out into sudden blaze, -f ,Comes the blind Fury with the' abhorred shears, /' ^ (., And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not...

...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...burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.. " But not the praise," Phoabus replied, and touch'd...