 | Frederic Mansel Reynolds - 2006 - 442 pàgines
...down on fame as " That last infirmity of noble mind," 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... | |
 | 1871 - 498 pàgines
...crowning work by making the poetry of it a stalking-horse for his theological convictions. What was that Fame " Which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days," to the crown of a good preacher who sets " The hearts of men on fire To scorn the sordid world and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1856 - 584 pàgines
...outraged people to the dread arbitrament of the God of battles. Fame was not to him "the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." The highest honors and the richest rewards in the power of a sovereign to bestow were his if he would... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1908 - 184 pàgines
...commonplace fortunes by the stars. 25-26. Clear fame: Compare Milton's Lycidas: ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." 32. Half -virtues: Is Lowell disparaging the virtues of peace and home in comparison with the heroic... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
