 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis7 in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. — Shakspere. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guardian, when we hope to find, And... | |
 | George Burrowes - 1853 - 542 pages
...though policy keeps it unuttered, is, Look on me, see how worthy I am of admiration. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, — That last infirmity of noble minds, — To scorn delights, and live laborious days."* This principle, springing from vanity, is... | |
 | John Stoddart - 1854 - 340 pages
...hand at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knollcs, Hist. Turk. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair gwrdcm when we hope to find, Comes the blind... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, r with the tangles ofNeeera'shair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, .Vnd... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...and refute the ill-natured critic's remarks. What can be finer than this passage ? — ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...drops, which from the skies do fall, The circles spread and hide the waters all. Sadccille. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1855 - 508 pages
...books he had written these mottoes : AAAA TAP F.2TIN MOT2A KAI HMIN. EURIP. Medea. 1091. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delight and live laborious days. MILTON'S Lycidas, 70. Under these lines was placed... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 384 pages
...the language of another, whose name, like Shakspeare's, is to go down to latest times : "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 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 with the abhorred... 
