| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...not better done, as 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVetera'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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVecera'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... | |
| 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 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... | |
| William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 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 minds) To scorn delight, and live laborious days." Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon Blackstone,... | |
| Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 574 pages
...and that a laudable one, being the acquirement of present reputation and future fame. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days." Dr. Johnson said that the man who had seen the Great... | |
| 1847 - 606 pages
...Fame has been beautifully pictured by our great Epic poet, in his " Lycidas," — " Fame is the spnr that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, aud live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...miserable, Doing or suffering : PL, i. 157. Thy frailty and innrmer sex forgiven. Id., x. 956. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) « scorn delights, and live laborious days. ' Lyci&u,' 71. 9 "—Come hither in thy hour of strength... | |
| William Howitt - 1847 - 430 pages
...come, it would be only by a part of the human world that his grandeur would be apprehended. " Fame, the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind," is infinitely more precious than gold to every true musician as well as to every true poet ; the heart... | |
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