 | 1811 - 544 pagine
...exten3G2 si ve sive acquirements; and, above all, an Ardent desire for reputation. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds), To scorn delights and live laborious days." Journal Generate de Medicine, de Chirurgie el de Pharmacie ; ou, Recueil periodique... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1810 - 416 pagine
...so grovelling, as would not wish for their memories an honourable immortality ? " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise, " That last infirmity of noble minds !" How inconceivable, then, is the idiotism of shortsighted pride, which affects to associate only... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 pagine
...had written these mottoes. AAAA TAP E2TIN 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 a reference to... | |
 | 1755 - 262 pagine
...reward of their literary labours, (independently of their expeditious sale,) "THAT FAME, the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, " (That last infirmity of noble minds) " To scorn delight, and live laborious days/ blow out their midnight lamp, and extinguish their study fire, in... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagine
...To sport with Amaryllis in the shad*, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fnme 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 think to burst out into sudden... | |
 | James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 pagine
...But to Tasso, how forcibly do the following pathetick lines of Lycidas apply. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delight and live laborious days. But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, Ainl think to burst out... | |
 | Edward Phillips - 1824 - 310 pagine
...touched in the nevertiring, though ever-cited, passage of Milton's Lycidas\ « Fame is the spur that ike 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 think to burst out into sudden... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pagine
...soul so grovelling, aa would not wish for their memories an honourable immortality ? Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble minds ! How inconceivable, then, is the idiotism of short sighted pride, which affects to associate only... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 418 pagine
...soul so grovelling, as would not wish for their memories an honourable immortality ? Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble minds ! How inconceivable, then, is the idiotism of short sighted pride, which aflects to associate only... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - 1828 - 830 pagine
...that interpretation * Thus Milton, in a fine passage of his exquisite Lycidas : Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. See also Paradise Regained, L. HI. sit. init. and the notes of Dr. Jortin. is... | |
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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 think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred... 
