...the shade, Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears...

...Еê ful)lte felbfl baê ©eelenlofe 5ßon meineê gebenê SBieberl)all. SCHILLER. Fame. 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, Phœbus replied, and touched...

...rake, That last infirmity of noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the f.iii guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out...sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred sheers, And slits the «6/n-spim life. Mi.'tvn. 77>/n-leaved arbute hazle-grafls receives, And planes...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit doth raise (That last...th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Pheebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on...

...the expression Blind Fury, in Lycidas; as it was not taken from the authority of ancient mythology. Comes the Blind Fury, with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Spenser, If the blind furie, which warres breedeth oft, Wonts not, &c. — — — — So Sackville,...

...noble structure moulders into dissolution. »' Fame is ihe spur that the clear spirit doth raise " To scorn delights, and live laborious days : " But...th' abhorred shears " And slits the thin-spun life." Mihon's Ijycidas. « If it had pleased Divine Providence to have protracted the term of his earthly...

...sent, Down' the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? 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,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, Audslitsthe thin-spun life. "But not the praise — (Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd...

...that it was 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 jEneid concerning the death...

...noble mind) To icorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to ('mil, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th1 abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcebus reply'd, and touch'd...