 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 pàgines
...continue in constantly or habitually; to pass; to spend; as, to live a life of ease. Fame is the spnr that the clear spirit doth raise . . . To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton. 1 To act habitually in conformity to. It is not enough to say prayers, unless they lire them... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pàgines
...giving context, the following quotations which occur in this READER : — 1. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." 2. " He prayeth best who loveth best." 3. " As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day... | |
 | William Jolly - 1883 - 576 pàgines
...were very correct. soul, hidden away from the world, fame was not and could not be " The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." That "fair guerdon " he never followed nor hoped to find, though it found him in the end. His pursuit... | |
 | Robert Perceval Graves - 1885 - 754 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John George Hargreaves - 1889 - 374 pàgines
...of great productions. It is as true in our times as it was in Milton's, that ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days.' But it is equally true, as he also says, ' that it is often an infirmity of noble minds.' Sought merely... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 462 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1893 - 320 pàgines
...the sweeter." The world plays the great fat doctor very well. Milton tells us that " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days ; " but the greater part of mankind, having more sympathy with the body than with its heavenly tenant, seem... | |
 | ANZAAS (Association) - 1894 - 786 pàgines
...Cambridge, would be a distinct incentive to the noblest of our youth, and if Fame be The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days then we should have in course of time in these class lists a roll of honor, which woiild be likely... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1896 - 384 pàgines
...such appeal defensible. But we speak, of course, in relation to fame — in regard to that " spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." That a perfume should be found by any "clear spirit " in the incense of mere popular applause, is,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 pàgines
...sweeter." The world plays the great fat doctor very well. Milton tells us that: — n Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days"; but the greater part of mankind, having more sympathy with the body than with its heavenly tenant, seem... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
