 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 270 pages
...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 sins the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; Fame... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; ner whims are gone, Your clock, though plain, would...spoil the engine of digestion, And you entirely Ձ And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling cars... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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...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 - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; ts hath also pour'd Inward and outward both, his image...all comeliness and grace Attends thee ; and each wo And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...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." William Bradford Homer was born in Boston, January 31 , 1817. " In his... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...spirit dolh raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 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-spnn life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | Civilization - 1846 - 506 pages
...has fulfilled all the hopes of his youth ; the other, we can only speak of him with unbidden tears. " 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 tie praise." INDEX TO FIRST VOLUME. America, a Working man's... | |
 | Scotland - 1847 - 806 pages
...OF TiIE INNER TEMPLE, RARRISTER-AT-LAW. RT SAMUEL WARREN, OF TUR INNER TEMPLE, DARRISTER-AT-LAW. Bat 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. M U.TON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith, barrister-at-law,... | |
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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... 
