 | 1845 - 672 pages
...invaluable as an example and encouragement to all who expect to achieve greatness, or would feel " The spur, that the clear spirit doth raise"— " To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Amid his severer studies, however, he seems to have had a keen sense of the humorous, and to have picked... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 360 pages
...Maleholge slopes towards the centre, every part must possess the same inclination. (47.) " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Milton. Lycidas, 70. " But Fame, with golden wings aloft doth fly, Above the reach of ruinous decay... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 346 pages
...Malebolge slopes towards the centre, every part must possess the same inclination. (47.) " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Milton. Lycidas, 70. " But Fame, with golden wings aloft doth fly, Above the reach of ruinous decay;... | |
 | 1846 - 588 pages
...Parliament and in Council, ought to be encouraged by high example, and inflamed by that love of fame ' Which the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days.' But this cannot happen, unless it is clearly shown that high desert has high fortune attached to it;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 610 pages
...Parliament and in Council, ought to be encouraged by high example, and inflamed by that love of fame ' Which the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days.' But this cannot happen, unless it is clearly shown that high desert has high fortune attached to it;... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes. YOUNG. 7. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. MILTON. 8. The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame.... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes. YOUNG. 7. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. MILTON. 8. The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame.... | |
 | Henry Howard, Frank Howard - 1848 - 398 pages
...scale, will ever awaken considerable powers, and stimulate genius to its utmost exertions. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days ; " and such noble aspirations would again be called forth by great occasions, and be attended with... | |
 | 1849 - 638 pages
...peak, or plant the English flag on polar snows, are alike based on the acquisition of fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days. Nor will Franklin abandon the struggle with mighty ice-bergs and thick-ribbed ice, as long as the smallest... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...peak, or plant the English flag on Polar snows, are alike based on the acquisition of fame. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days. Nor will Franklin abandon the struggle with mighty icebergs and thick-ribbed ice, as long as the smallest... | |
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The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
