 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 shears And slits the thin-spun life.  Chaucer to Burns - Page 112edited by - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...Nesera'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...And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; 1 0 But the fan: guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out...praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; 15 " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil 1. What boots it,... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — 70 That last infirmity of noble mind — To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus 4 replied, and touched my trembling... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...Nesera'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...life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...70 : — " 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...life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : ' Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...70 : — " 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...shears And slits the thin-spun life. ( But not the praise,1 Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : * Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...pomp and circumstance of life, so with life itself. Typical for all time is the fate of Lycidas :— To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." INVOCATION AND INACTION. EXODUS xiv. 15. WITH the Red Sea close before them, and with Pharaoh and his... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...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...blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin- spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears, 65 70 75 Thracian... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 474 pages
...: — • " 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...the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits [he thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phebus replied, and touched my trembling ears : ' Fame is... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — 70 That last infirmity of noble mind — To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phcebus replied, and touched my trembling ears... | |
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