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...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. ' But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touch'd...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 69 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blare, 71 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the...

...Regained, iii. 25. and confirmed in the notes by numerous quotations from the heathen philosophers. To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But 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 ; 75 Lib. ii. p....

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...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 65 70 63. Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore.] In calling Hebrus swift, Milton, who is avaricious...

...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. while, it would be easy to trace the ancestors of the late noble poet to those days of chivalry,...

...curiosity, or the hope of entertainment. With them no doubt both writers and readers, " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) . To scorn delights, and live laborious days :—" And we are always happy when " the fair guerdon" rewards at length their honourable and indefatigable...

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...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame it the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Tii scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...