 | 1846 - 674 pàgines
...emoluments of office, or their amusement in the exciting variety of political intrigue. The men who arc qualified by talent, prepared by education, and fitted...fame ' Which the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn dehght?, and live laborious days.' But this cannot happen, unless it is clearly shown that high desert... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pàgines
...proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes. YOUNG. 7. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. MILTON. 8. The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame.... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pàgines
...proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes. YOUNG. 7. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. MILTON. 8. The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame.... | |
 | Henry Howard, Frank Howard - 1848 - 398 pàgines
...ever awaken considerable powers, and stimulate genius to its utmost exertions. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days ; " and such noble aspirations would again be called forth by great occasions, and be attended with... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pàgines
...the English flag on Polar snows, are alike based on the acquisition of fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days. Nor will Franklin abandon the struggle with mighty icebergs and thick-ribbed ice, as long as the smallest... | |
 | 1849 - 638 pàgines
...the English flag on polar snows, are alike based on the acquisition of fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days. Nor will Franklin abandon the struggle with mighty ice-bergs and thick-ribbed ice, as long as the smallest... | |
 | Sid Smith - 1850 - 304 pàgines
...of body than anxiety of mind ; if he would train himself in that cheerful self denying intrepidity which " The clear spirit doth raise. To scorn delights, and live laborious days," if he would rather lie harder that he may sleep sounder, than slumber fitfully in troubled dreams,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1850 - 368 pàgines
...that great men do not wish to be known to after ages : Milton has well said— " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." But still, this " last infirmity of noble minds," is one which we should be as little proud of displaying... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pàgines
...on fame as l 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 Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles James Blomfield - 1851 - 414 pàgines
...prove the subject of no mean speculation to the philosophic mind. The love of fame — The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days — seems to have failed in obtaining its accustomed meed among some of the most eminent individuals... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
