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" The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. "
Putnam's Monthly - Page 216
1853
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The North American Review, Volume 83

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1856 - 588 pages
...sovereign and outraged people to the dread arbitrament of the God of battles. Fame was not to him " the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days.'' The highest honors and the richest rewards in the power of a sovereign to bestow were his if he would...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1857 - 588 pages
...everything, therefore, in his personal position and connections to make him feel intensely — " The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." But his lot was cast in the interspace between the first and second Persian wars, and his family had...
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The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Volume 2

1857 - 536 pages
...shall in the world beneath occupy niches — if humbler ones — in the temple of fame. This is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days. And look whore we will. from the highest and most solitary sage who ever desired the " propagation...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1857 - 588 pages
...everything, therefore, in his personal position and connections to make him feel intensely — " The spnr that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." But his lot was cast in the interspace between the first and second Persian wars, and his family nad...
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The Elements of the English Language

Ernest Adams - 1858 - 200 pages
...we gain Is [to perceive our care and labour vain]. — Crabbe. e. a compound phrase : Fame is [the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days]. — Milton. 78. The predicate is sometimes placed first for the sake of emphasis. Sweet is the breath...
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Hints to Thinkers; or, Lectures for the times

William Edward Baxter - 1860 - 264 pages
...between " Th" ambitious deed, And all the dangerous paths which lead To honours falsely won." and "The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Of the former kind is that which Shakspeare makes Wolsey enjoin Cromwell to "fling away" as a sin that...
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The Arctic Regions, and Polar Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century ...

Peter Lund Simmonds - 1860 - 346 pages
...heralded abroad ; and he would not abandon his enterprise as long as strength remained. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. To scorn delights and live laborious days." He would not give up the struggle with mighty icebergs and thick-ribbed ice as long as the smallest...
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The Poetical Works of James Montgomery. With a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1

James Montgomery - 1860 - 372 pages
...praise would have been sufficient, upon minds less depressed than the author's, to act as " Fame," " The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days." MILTON'S Lycidas. The immediate origin of the first poem in the series was purely incidental. And •...
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Introduction to the History of English Literature

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 202 pages
...with more vigour from its novelty, incited genius to its highest efforts. The desire of fame — " the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. To scorn delights and live laborious days,"* naturally increased as the means of gratifying that passion extended, and the circle was widened from...
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The British Poets, Volume 1

1865 - 380 pages
...praise would have been sufficient, upon minds less depressed than the author's, to act as " Fame," " The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days." Mn/roN's Lycidat. The immediate origin of the first poem in the series was purely incidental. And here,...
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