 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...  Translations Into English and Latin - Page 183by Charles Stuart Calverley - 1897 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears ; * Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad Rumor lies, 80 But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...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 shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Vates Amans Naturae. Ut statuam fertur, miro perculsus... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...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 mortal soil, Nor in the glist'ring foil Set off to th' world, nor in broad Rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows...world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aji&fcjt'th'ose pure eyes, And perfect witness of affjudging .love ; 8] As he pronounces lastly on... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 shears, And...life. " But not the praise,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears j " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fuiy with the abhorred shears-, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phffibus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...abhorred shears, Audslitsthe thin-spun life. "But not the praise — (Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears ;) " Fame is no plant that grows...mortal soil, " Nor in the glistering foil " Set off to th' world, nor in broad rumour lies, " But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, " And perfect... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...guerdon when we hope to gain, And think to burst forth into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life."—" But not the praise," Phoebus replied.— Milton's Lycidas. Once more we have to drop a tear over promising talents early blighted, As flowers... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden bluze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun 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 gliit'ring foil,... | |
 | England - 1847 - 798 pages
...BARRISTBR-AT-LAW. But the fair guerdon •when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. MILTON. — Lycidas. THE name of John William Smith, barrister-at-law, of the Liner Temple, now appears,... | |
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