 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...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, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind... | |
 | John Opie - Painting - 1809 - 312 pages
...UNDERTAKING; THE FRIENDS OF HIS PRIVATE LIFE, AND ADMI1ERS OF HIS PROFESSIONAL EMINENCE. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,, (That last...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... | |
 | John Opie - Painting - 1809 - 286 pages
...FRIENDS OF HIS PRIVATE LIFE, AND ADMIRERS OF HIS PROFESSIONAL EMINENCE. . 1 " Fame is the spur that (lie 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, Gomes the blind... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 infirmity...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, Conies the blind... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 infirmity...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neasra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 He ask'd the waves, and ask'd the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doom'd this gentle swainl And... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...studying the law a year or two, in the Temple, he travelled abroad, and died at Athens. " Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to gain, And think to burst forth into sudden blaze, Comes the blind... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nertua's hair ? Fame is the spur (hat the clear spi'rit doth raise {That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, aud live laborious days; But (he fair guerdon when we hope to find. And think to luirst out into sudden... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford - Greek language - 1815 - 314 pages
...εδοκεον δειν και αιτεομαι ο αγαθός παξα ί Ό %εος. 11. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble Minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Milton's Lycidas, v. JO. 13. There is not only... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shack, Or with the tangles of Nesera's 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 fair guerdon when we hope to find, And... | |
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Milton, Lycidas, 70 : Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
