 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pągines
...compell'd, All give the present to the future age." Mrt. Carter. 59. On the love of Fame. " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." Milton. 60. A new Translation of Martial's Epigram on the chief ingredients of human happiness ; with... | |
 | 1814 - 698 pągines
...had in vain sought for in luxury, and wealth, or even in that bncalli of fame, which, we are told, the " Clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." from this summary it will be seen, that we are satisfied iri calling Javan the hero of the Poem ; in... | |
 | 1877 - 1004 pągines
...yet who sings but as the linnet sings, because he must, and is utmost too free from ' The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days, (for one cannot help feeling that the very best of hia possibilities have never been wrung out of him,... | |
 | 1835 - 476 pągines
...still be true that, in the greatest number of cases, and of the highest quality, Fame w the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. That mysterious joy — incomprehensible if man were wholly mortal — which accompanies the hope of... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1833 - 462 pągines
...beneath rich canopies of state, On beds of down, must Fame be sought by man. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." DD Milton, Lycidus, 70. " But Fame, with golden wings aloft doth fly, Above the reach of ruinous decay... | |
 | 1833 - 736 pągines
...impressed, as their productions prove, with the most exalted and noblest emotions. « Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days;" or, to use the words of the eloquent Rhetorician of Italy, "Illis suberat ingens Cupido glorise, quse... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pągines
...on fame as ' that last infirmity of noble minds,' had not forgotten that it was — ' The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, . : To scorn delights, and live laborious days.'* The natural bent of character is, perhaps, better ascertained from the undisturbed and unconscious... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pągines
...on fame as ' that last infirmity of noble minds,' had not forgotten that it was— ' The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." The natural bent of character is, perhaps, better ascertained from the undisturbed and unconscious... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pągines
...on fame as ' that last infirmity of noble minds,' had not forgotten that it was— ' The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, . < To scorn delights, and live laborious days." The natural bent of character is, perhaps, better ascertained from the undisturbed! and unconscious... | |
 | 1835 - 704 pągines
...still be true that, in the greatest number of cases, and of the highest quality, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. That mysterious joy — incomprehensible if man were wholly mortal — which accompanies the hope of... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
