...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Pho?bus replied, and touch*...

...this title. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Faroe is the spur that the 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 to burst out into sudden...

...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from a family more remarkable for its antiquity, and for the heroism...

...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that will attach to the name of Colling wood as long...

...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that will attach to the name of Colling wood as long...

...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise '. we may safely add — for that will attach to the name of Collingwood as long...

...religious influence puts into the hands of government should not be constantly perverted by * Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. LYCIDAS. VOL. H. C government to its own purposes; and in this inevitable abuse we discern another...

...unostentatious CoUingwopd — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind !) To scprn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to fuufi And think to burst...

...observes that that interpretation * Thus Milton, in a fine passage of his exquisite Lycidas : Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. See also Paradise Regained, L. HI. sit. init. and...

...passages were probably in the mind of Milton, in those matchless verses of his Lycidast " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The phrase ¿катцуш r/)c ápxñc occurs often in...