| National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pągines
...monument, which shall make mo immortal in the memories of those who shall come after." " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Mighty have been the effects of this inward force upon the minds and hearts of young men ; nor can... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 562 pągines
...that we agree with him. We would be the last to undervalue that enterprising eagerness for fame ' that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days ' — which has been the parent of so many noble deeds, and which, we are proud to say, has never associated... | |
| Newburyport (Mass.). City Council - 1879 - 224 pągines
...ambition virtue, — ambition which was for him, and will be for the great in every age, "The spur that the clear spirit doth raise ****** To scorn delights and live laborious days." By all it will then be clearly recognized that the true rank to be assigned to him is that of one among... | |
| Francis Edmund C. Byng (5th earl of Strafford.) - 1881 - 288 pągines
...retirement, where nought, as he thinks, shall break in upon his rest. He is not one of those "whom the clear spirit doth raise, to scorn delights and live laborious days," * but rather of that feeble and effeminate class which asks that its life may be free from anxiety, that... | |
| George Salmon - 1881 - 350 pągines
...powers may gain. It is not true, or it is a mere fraction of the truth, that " love of fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise to scorn delights and live laborious days." An unsubstantial recompense, if this were all ; nor would prudence find it easy to justify the giving... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1881 - 510 pągines
...shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair P That last infirmity of noble mind— Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise— To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury... | |
| 1881 - 858 pągines
...glory may well thrill us with a joy that nothing else can give. If even earthly " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days," what shall be the effect of that glory which consists in the praise of God ? Surely the hope of that... | |
| Arthur Charles Hervey - 1881 - 338 pągines
...victorious courage and hope. Nobler in its aims than " fame," it is yet, like " fame," a " spur, that the clear spirit doth raise, to scorn delights and live laborious days " (Milton). 4. Note the fine expression, " to trust under whose wings thou art come.' ' Compare what... | |
| Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1881 - 342 pągines
...victorious courage and hope. Nobler in its aims than " fame," it is yet, like " fame," a " spur, that the clear spirit doth raise, to scorn delights and live laborious days " (Milton). 4. Note the fine expression, " to trust under whoso wings thou art come." Compare what... | |
| 1883 - 394 pągines
...company." 4- + + A schoolgirl was asked the other day to paraphrase th« lines — " Fame IB the spur which the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days." HOW I LEARNED TO GOLF. IT happened ae summer lately that my twa sons took a house doon at Fisher-raw,... | |
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