...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 th' abhorred shears, 75 And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd my trembling ears...

...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 shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise, Phœbus replied, and touched...

...noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the f.iii guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred sheers, And slits the «6/n-spim life. Mi.'tvn. 77>/n-leaved arbute hazle-grafls receives, And planes...

...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...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 expression Blind Fury, in Lycidas; as it was not taken from the authority of ancient mythology. Comes the Blind Fury, with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Spenser, If the blind furie, which warres breedeth oft, Wonts not, &c. — — — — So Sackville,...

...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 abhorred, shears, And slits the thin spualLfe." — FEW men have attained to eminence by a more irregular...

...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 shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise,*" Phoebus replied, and touch'd...

...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," Phoebus replied, and touch'd my trembling ears ; " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering...

...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 shears, Audslitsthe thin-spun life. "But not the praise — (Phoebus reply'd, and touch'd...

...that it was usual to cut off the hair of the patients ; as insinuated perhaps by line 76, Lycidas, " Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." Conformable to which is the remarkable statement at the end of the fourth jEneid concerning the death...