 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...  Verses and translations, by C.S.C. - Side 114af Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...Ncirra's hair Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily of noble mind) 71 ГО. PRIOR. САКТО Ш. Yet, if these finer whims...spoil the engine of digestion, And you entirely Ձ touch'd my trembling cars ; " Faino is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Nor in the glittering foil... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 sider
...fire." Milton thus excuses desire when it takes the shape of the love of distinction : — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days."* Disgust and aversion, the extreme of desire, are most proper emotions when deeds and principles of... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 320 sider
...much as a castration: Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of nohle mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days;...burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. (70-6) In response to this crisis, the poem initially... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 sider
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the (angles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 'Lycldas' lift 581 1. ft" 3 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | George H. McLoone - 1999 - 172 sider
...increasingly untenable, yet also what the ego seems to crave most, the event continuous with fame, "the spur that the clear spirit doth raise / (That last...noble mind) / To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes" (Lycidas, lines 70-72). The covenant of works, here a kind of purgatorial aesthetic, displaces... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1999 - 291 sider
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretch'd straw. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. — John Milton, Lycidas I Central to the apologiae... | |
 | Michael Petrus Josephus Van Den Hout, Marco Cornelio Frontón - 1999 - 752 sider
...Tacitus, as has been assumed by Crossley, The Correspondence 7 If., who compares Milton's 'Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (that last infirmity of noble mind) to scorn delights'; by Priebe II l 3; Schwierczina, Frontoniana 33; Teuffel 3,75; Schanz IIP l00; Selvatico, Scambio 294... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 sider
...never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne, Meditation, XVII (1624) H But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. John Milton, l.yddas (1637) is Life itself is but... | |
 | Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 sider
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaeras hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Phoebus repli'd, and touch'd... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 sider
...Milton, in Lycidas (1637), substitutes Fury for Fate as he ponders the fortune of man: Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. leb,(s)lab: loose, hanging (as the lip), etc. Gk... | |
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