Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,

Or with the tangles of Neæra's hair.

Lycidas. Line 68.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise[247:1]

(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 th' abhorred shears

And slits the thin-spun life.