 | English periodicals - 1844 - 714 pages
...hardly worse for earning that substantial and perdurable fame which " the clear spirit doth raise (The last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days." At his father's table or club, and at the many tables or clubs where he was welcomed, he soon distinguished... | |
 | John Barrow - Iceland - 1835 - 372 pages
...undoubtedly best can tell what poets feel ; and one of our greatest poets has said that " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." But what share of fame, here or hereafter, can... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 274 pages
...use, ,, . To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neasra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | Law - 1836 - 526 pages
...indolence, he was not idle — with none of the ordinary motives of exertion, he worked — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delight, and live laborious days." Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon Blackstone for having resisted... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...stand up, in a corrupt age, for what has not its immediate reward joined to it. ADD1SON. FAME is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...of Phoebus to his lamentation, furnishes a beautiful specimen of this poem : — •• Fame to the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find. And think to burst out into sudden blaxe, Com« the blind fury with th' abhorr'd shear*. And slits the thin spun... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise TO (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, 75 Vir. jEn. 1. 381. '... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Necero's hair ? Fame is the spur, which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of...To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the bright guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury,... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...True Fame has been beautifully pictured by our great Epic poet, in his " Lycidas," — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To ecorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1838 - 422 pages
...clear spirit doth raise, (That lael infirmity of nohle minds) To scorn >ielight, and five lahorious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to hurst out into sudden hlaze. Conies the hlind fury with th' ahhorred eticare, And slits the thin-spun... | |
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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... 
