 | Robert Sidney Douglass - 1912 - 798 pągines
...earned money for clothes and got a little ahead for the winter. An education was for him "The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." By indomitable ambition and ceaseless industry he managed to complete not only the course in Benton,... | |
 | Samuel Angus - 1914 - 282 pągines
...For the Greek loved praise, ' that last infirmity of noble minds.' For him ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days.' To win the crown of parsley and have his name inscribed in marble was to the Greek what a consulship... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 pągines
...has is overworn." SECOND HALF. Examiner — ASUTOSH CHATTEKJEE, ESQ., MA (a) Fame is the Spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days. (6) They also serve who only stand and wait (c) Man's feeble race what ills await ! (d) Poor moralist!... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Baron Craigmyle - 1921 - 368 pągines
...happy inducements there were that I should follow it ! " Fame," says Milton, " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." There is something in that, no doubt, but not so much as men think. There are two passages in Burns... | |
 | University of Adelaide. Public Examinations Board - 1928 - 1280 pągines
...novel you have studied on the life and conditions of some former period. 6. 'Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days.' (If possible, illustrate your comments on this quotation by reference to the life of some great man.)... | |
 | 1855 - 1504 pągines
...(said one of my German friends) than the mere words import ; it refers not exactly to "the spur that the clear spirit doth raise" To scorn delights, and live laborious days; but to коте inward impulse to " continued, though not headlong, progress :" or it might be rendered... | |
 | Elspeth Cameron, Janice Dickin - 1997 - 354 pągines
...University of Toronto Press, 1966), ix 15 Innis's title is from Milton, Lycidas: 'Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ... / To scorn delights and live laborious days.' 16 See Carol Ascher, Louise De Salvo, and Sara Ruddick, eds., Between Women: Biographers, Novelists,... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 pągines
...last, and in some ways the noblest, humanist of them all, John Milton, would write, "Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise ... To scorn delights and live laborious days." That it was also for Milton "That last infirmity of noble mind" is simply a reminder of the precariousness... | |
 | William Rowan Hamilton - 2000 - 866 pągines
...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... | |
 | Mira Kirshenbaum - 2001 - 133 pągines
...or twice, went to a couple of parties among his inner circle, ran into him. "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ... To scorn delights, and live laborious days," Milton says, lamenting a friend lost at sea — a much different idea of fame from ours now. Maybe... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
