 | John Edmund Reade - 1858 - 334 pages
...spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of a 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 — " Of our endless novelists, what more shall be... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 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 ;... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1859 - 612 pages
...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 the praise.' " From the man, let us now turn to the works... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Authors - 1859 - 268 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." 4 There are two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, the 21st and 22nd of Milton's... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...clear spirit doth raise (That list 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." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; 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." The fancy then changes. After a strain of higher mood, correcting what... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Line 50. " Where were ye ?" '" This burst is as magnificent as it is affecting." — Sir E. Brydges.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...raise, 7J (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the ftiir guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Line M. " Where were ye r" "This burst Uas magnificent a« It Is anVctins;.M— Sir E. Brylyrt. L.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 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... | |
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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... 
