| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 462 pages
...making the poetry of it a stalking-horse for his theological convictions. What was that Fame " Which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days," to the crown of a good preacher who sets " The hearts of men on fire To scorn the sordid world and... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1893 - 656 pages
...sweeter." The world plays the great fat doctor very well. Milton tells us that "Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days ; " but the greater part of mankind, having more sympathy with the body than with its heavenly tenant,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1896 - 384 pages
...is any such appeal defensible. But we speak, of course, in relation to fame — in regard to that " spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." That a perfume should be found by any "clear spirit " in the incense of mere popular applause, is,... | |
| ANZAAS (Association) - 1894 - 786 pages
...Oxford and Cambridge, would be a distinct incentive to the noblest of our youth, and if Fame be The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days then we should have in course of time in these class lists a roll of honor, which woiild be likely... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Education - 1900 - 906 pages
...this, the tyro and the adept alike wait. How the prizes, the love of study the desire for fame, that "spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days,'' divide the honours in forming this exhibition I cannot decide. At the last exhibition there were collections... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1900 - 686 pages
...this, the tyro and the adept alike wait. How the prizes, the love of study the desire for fame, that , "spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days,'' divide the honours in forming this exhibition I cannot decide. At the last exhibition there were collections... | |
| Great Britain. Board of Education - 1900 - 566 pages
...this, the tyro and the adept alike wait. How the prizes, the love of study the desire for fame, that "spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live Ыюпопя days,'' divide the honours in forming this exhibition I cannot decide. At the last exhibition... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pages
...sweeter." The world plays the great fat doctor very well. Milton tells us that: — "Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days"; % ^ but the greater part of mankind, having more sympathy with the body than with its heavenly tenant,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 520 pages
...making the poetry of it a stalking-horse for his theological convictions. What was that Fame " Which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days ' ' — to the crown of a good preacher who sets " The hearts of men on fire To scorn the sordid world... | |
| J. K. M. Shirazi - 1905 - 132 pages
...actuated by a genuine thirst for knowledge — pricked, too, by the desire of fame that "... Spur, which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." Possibly also he may have been not insensible to that primary incentive to effort, the desire of earning... | |
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