 | 1826 - 644 pàgines
...world that is left yet undone, whereby a notable mind might be made famous and fortunate.' Thus it is that, ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days.' But leaving the individual adventurer out... | |
 | John Barrow - 1835 - 370 pàgines
...dollars, giving an average for each parish in the island of not more than 34 or 35 dollars (a)" — that is, about 5/. a-year. («) Dr. Holland's MS. Journal....hope for ? He might well ask himself — " What is fame ? — a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us e'en before our death ; All that we... | |
 | John Barrow - 1835 - 372 pàgines
...than 34 or 35 dollars (a)" — that is, about 57. a-year. («) Dr. Holland's MS. Journal. Chap. VII.J and warmed by its beneficent rays. Poets undoubtedly...the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." But what share of fame, here or hereafter,... | |
 | James Thorne - 1849 - 472 pàgines
...and children over a fire, but for the use of men and citizens." He felt, as he had already written, that " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble miuds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." " You ask me, of what I am thinking," he... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 368 pàgines
...бê fúl/.te fclbfl baê ©eelcntofe SSon meineê gcbenо SBieberfyall. SCHILLER. fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of nohle mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pàgines
...Domg or suflering : P. Z,., i. 157 Thy frailty and infirmer sex forgiven. Id., i. 956. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of nohle mind) To scorn delights, and live lahorious days. ' Lycidat,' 11 —Come hither in thy hour of strength... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 340 pàgines
...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 .of nohle minds) To soorn delights, and live lahorious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to hurst... | |
 | James A. Melville - 1884 - 168 pàgines
...in the sense of 'hegan to move' (Par. Lost, p. 134, 1. 11) ; (4.) And such sentences— 'Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, , , „ ' That last infirmity of nohle minds ' (Lye. , p. 97, 1. 7). In this last example, we should now place the relative clanse, ' that last... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pàgines
...HOPE OF PROGRESS .... 233 CHAPTER XIII THE DESTINY OF MAN ... . 255 CHAPTER I AMBITION B ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days." MILTON. CHAPTER I AMBITION IF fame be the last infirmity of noble minds, ambition is often the first... | |
 | John Keats - 1925 - 292 pàgines
...be unthankful — if I am to recover, the day of 1 See ' Lyoidas,1 lines 70 to 76 :— Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of nohle mind ) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think... | |
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Poets undoubtedly best can tell what poets feel ; and one of our greatest poets has said that " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of nohle minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
