 | 1811 - 544 pagine
...with 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... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 pagine
...commonplace books he 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... | |
 | 1755 - 262 pagine
...that best 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pagine
...others use, 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... | |
 | James Sloan, Theodore Lyman - 1818 - 406 pagine
...lion's mane." 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pagine
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 65 70 63. Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore.] In calling Hebrus swift, Milton, who is avaricious... | |
 | George Clinton - 1825 - 826 pagine
...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame it the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Tii scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pagine
...this title. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Faroe is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Bloomfield - 1828 - 830 pagine
...observes that 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... | |
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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... 
