 Neaera's hair ? 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...  The Harvard Classics - Seite 761909Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1846 - 506 Seiten
...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...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not tie praise." INDEX TO FIRST VOLUME. America, a Working man's recollections of, 97. Axe and the Gibbet,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 Seiten
...incessant care. To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse7 Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch 'd my trembling ears. " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...incessant care To lend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse i visibly, and Phrcbus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost shear», And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the «hade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's so touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 Seiten
...füllte felbft baa ©eclenlofe 5ßon meince йсЬспб SEßteberljall. SCHILLER. Farne. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro perculsus amore, Pygmalion cupido continuisse sinu, Donee... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ! Fame ia the her enchanting »on, Whom universal nature did lament,...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore! 22 Alas I what boots touch'd my trembling ears ; ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 368 Seiten
...SBieberfyall. SCHILLER. fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of nohle mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ;...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears. MILTON. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 Seiten
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of NeaBra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst oat into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred sheers, And slits the thin-spun life.... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, — That last infirmity of noble minds, — To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. K But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touche<J my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows... | |
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