 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1822 - 536 pàgines
...oppression ? — That spirit , of which Milton speaks so beautifully , when he says : n Fame is the spur , that the clear Spirit doth raise To scorn delights , and live laborious days ! » It is argued , that there is nothing necessarily inconsistent between worldly prudence , and the... | |
 | 1877 - 1004 pàgines
...to sing, 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 pàgines
...it will 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... | |
 | 1826 - 622 pàgines
...ought to be the pure, disinterested fame, which results from the propagation of truth ! Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days ! Bacon was convicted of receiving money from the parties whose causes he adjudged. The defence was,... | |
 | 1833 - 614 pàgines
...feelings 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 ingcns Cupido gloria:,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1833 - 482 pàgines
...For not 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." Milton, Lycidas, 70. DD " But Fame, with golden wings aloft doth fly, Above the reach of ruinous decay... | |
 | 1835 - 736 pàgines
...he, who, almost alone, was entitled to look down on fame as ' that last infirmity of noble minds,1 had not forgotten that it was " the spur that the...doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days 1" The natural bent of character is perhaps better ascertained from the undisturbed and unconscious... | |
 | 1835 - 642 pàgines
...ultimate reason, of this and of all other similar associations and companies of studious men." Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, , To scorn delights, and live laborious days. The Professor proceeded to speak more particularly of the Association, using a more technical style, and... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
