 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - Počet stránok 354
...give the present to the future age." Mrt. Carter. 59. On the love of Fame. " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." Milton. 60. A new Translation of Martial's Epigram on the chief ingredients of human happiness ; with... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 698
...had in vain sought for in luxury, and wealth, or even in that bncalli of fame, which, we are told, the " Clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." from this summary it will be seen, that we are satisfied iri calling Javan the hero of the Poem ; in... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1822 - Počet stránok 536
...oppression ? — That spirit , of which Milton speaks so beautifully , when he says : n Fame is the spur , that the clear Spirit doth raise To scorn delights , and live laborious days ! » It is argued , that there is nothing necessarily inconsistent between worldly prudence , and the... | |
 | 1877 - Počet stránok 1004
...to sing, yet who sings but as the linnet sings, because he must, and is utmost too free from ' The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days, (for one cannot help feeling that the very best of hia possibilities have never been wrung out of him,... | |
 | 1826 - Počet stránok 622
...ought to be the pure, disinterested fame, which results from the propagation of truth ! Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days ! Bacon was convicted of receiving money from the parties whose causes he adjudged. The defence was,... | |
 | 1835 - Počet stránok 476
...it will still be true that, in the greatest number of cases, and of the highest quality, Fame w 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1833 - Počet stránok 482
...For not beneath rich canopies of state, On beds of down, must Fame be sought by man. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Milton, Lycidas, 70. DD " But Fame, with golden wings aloft doth fly, Above the reach of ruinous decay... | |
 | 1833 - Počet stránok 614
...feelings impressed, as their productions prove, with the most exalted and noblest emotions. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days ;" or, to use the words of the eloquent Rhetorician of Italy, "Illis suberat ingcns Cupido gloria:,... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - Počet stránok 394
...look down on fame as ' that last infirmity of noble minds,' 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... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - Počet stránok 394
...look down on fame as ' that last infirmity of noble minds,' 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... | |
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The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
