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...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,...

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...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...

...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...

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...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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...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...