 | Thomas Zouch - 1808 - 400 sivua
...work, and by some unforeseen- accident the noble structure moulders into dissolution. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise " To scorn delights, and live laborious days: " But the fair guenloa when we hope to find, '• And think to burst out into sudden blaze, " Comes... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1808 - 464 sivua
...not ashamed to confess that I love literary fame; und perhaps too fondly ! " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days I" My fame, I hope, does not depend on the present work. But if I am doomed in consequence of these... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 684 sivua
...want, to check them back again." This recalls to mind the exquisite strain of Milton : «' Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." 120 No higher than Apollo we can go : — But if a loftier title you can show, That greater name let... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 sivua
...whom it was so coldly received. Jan. 14, 1809. N° LIX. On the Love of Fame. ' Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." MILTON. THE love of Fame, if we limit the word to the result of virtuous and honourable exertions,... | |
 | 1813 - 598 sivua
...hardly ever felt without inspiring the hope, and the belief of a futurity : " FAME is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." I have prescribed no bounds to my wanderings in the course of these " Illustrations," and shall here... | |
 | 1814 - 698 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 450 sivua
...and feeling; he more pursued that lasting'praise which is nut to be earned without praiseworthinesst and, if he continued to be a lover of fame, he also...glory of his country. Even He who almost alone was enirtlcd to look down on fame ns "that la»t infirmity of noble mind.V had not forgotten that it was... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1822 - 536 sivua
...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... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1824 - 404 sivua
...hundred times, (but I cannot too often cite it,) the noble passage in Milton's Lycidas:. « Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights., and live laborious dajrs..n The desire of esteem, credit, kindness , praise, is indissoluble from the constituents of... | |
 | 1826 - 622 sivua
...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,... | |
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The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, . : To scorn delights, and live laborious days... 
