...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,...

...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...

...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 influencing...

...the uprising tumour of individual importance. The watchful interest of the public is " the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days ;" and when this is absent, we must not be surprised if the movements of an association» 66 67 formed...

...down on fame as " that l^st infirmity of noble mind," had not forgotten thai 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 play...

...to toil in the pleasing — though unprofitable — labours of his calling. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days." And, by the way, renown is the only reward which the Poets receive from men : it is often their lot...

...revilings of the multitude. It is the interest of a country, when there are many roads to wealth, and^many sources of tranquil enjoyment, that the 'great art...high desert has high fortune attached to it ; and tint the vulgar depreciation of political pursuits cannot soil the pure mirror by which true statesmen...

...slopes towards the centre, every part must possess the same inclination. (47.) " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Milton. Lycidas, 70. " But Fame, with golden wings aloft doth fly, Above the reach of ruinous decay...

...slopes towards the centre, every part must possess the same inclination. (47.) " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Milton. Lycidas, 70. " But Fame, with golden wings aloft doth fly, Above the reach of ruinous decay;...

...an example and encouragement to all who expect to achieve greatness, or would feel " The spur, that the clear spirit doth raise" — " To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Amid his severer studies, however, he seems to have had a keen sense of the humorous, and to have picked...