 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; @ shear», And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; 1 And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 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 touched my trembling ears. Vates... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...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. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J my trembling ears;... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...spirit doth raise {That last infirmity of noble mind) 7I To scorn delights and live laborious days ; divine. Those tents thou saw'st And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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:... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows...foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...spirit doth raise, 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise,'1 Line so. " Wliere were ye T" " This burnt Is as magnificent as It la affecting."— Sir E.... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 384 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. ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
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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... 
