 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 páginas
...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...foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all judging Jove; As he pronounces... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...mind) 71 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 796 páginas
...must not omit the answer, and a noble one it is — ' But not the praise, Pho3bus replied, and touched my trembling ears ; Fame is no plant that grows on...foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies ; But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove ; As he pronounces... | |
 | 1847 - 798 páginas
...SAMUEL WARREN, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTBR-AT-LAW. But the fair guerdon •when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind...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,... | |
 | James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 páginas
...minds,) To scorn delight and live laborious days. But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, Ainl think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun life.* The mind turns with horrour and compassion from the view of the place, where this... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...-., 'But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, £ • And think to burst out into sudden blaze, -f ,Comes the blind Fury with the' abhorred shears, /'...And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phcebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; 'Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And of power at once ; nor odds appear'd In might or swift...Michael from the armoury of God Was given him temper Phcobus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
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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... 
