 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days...  Mosaics - Page 346by Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis, in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 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... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 pages
...and the brilliancy of her occasional remarks. CHAPTER VI. THE STRANGER OF THE CAMPANILE. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. MILTON. The way to fame is like the way to heaven... | |
 | Universalism - 1854 - 444 pages
...enterprises. Milton, in his Lycidas, says: " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (The last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days: But the fair guerdon, where we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nea>ra's hair! Fame is the u ~ B 8Q R & WV 6 2d;t [) 'W3 H Z%r&Uց & S y[ sconi delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, And think to... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1844 - 526 pages
...books he had written these mottoes : AAAA TAP H2TIN MOT2A KAI HMIN. EORIP. 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. honour ; but rather, in its... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nerera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last...days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 1 Gaikli Where yo ling— connected with the verb to go — going about, wandering, straying. - rv... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1845 - 356 pages
...others use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera'a hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind] To scorn delights, and lire laborious days, But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVetsra's hair 1 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Ne&ra's hair ? 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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...English, could not but augment the admiration which his learning challenged. — Hallam. 3. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) Phoebus replied and touched my trembling ear ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, 10... | |
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