 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...  Environs of London: Western Division - Page 261by John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1811 - 544 pages
...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...minds), To scorn delights and live laborious days." Journal Generate de Medicine, de Chirurgie el de Pharmacie ; ou, Recueil periodique de la Sociite •... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...Еê ful)lte felbfl baê ©eelenlofe 5ßon meineê gebenê SBieberl)all. SCHILLER. Fame. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles pf Neaera's hair ? 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...the stream was sent, Down' the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, N2 Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1811 - 544 pages
...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 a reference to... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? 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... | |
 | 1755 - 262 pages
...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 study fire, in... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...studying the law a year or two, in the Temple, he travelled abroad, and died at Athens. " 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 gain, And think... | |
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