 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 דפים
...English, could not but augment the admiration which his learning challenged. — Hallam. 3. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) Phoebus replied and touched my trembling ear ; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, 10 Nor in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 דפים
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nccera's hair 1 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 דפים
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neeera'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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 דפים
...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nerera'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, 1... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1845 - 356 דפים
...others use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera'a hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind] To scorn delights, and lire laborious days, But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 574 דפים
...and that a laudable one, being the acquirement of present reputation and future fame. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days." Dr. Johnson said that the man who had seen the Great Wall of China might be considered as shedding... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 דפים
...indolence, he was not idle — with none of the ordinary motives of exertion, he worked : — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delight, and live laborious days." Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon Blackstone, for having resisted... | |
 | James Booth - 1846 - 172 דפים
...emulation of his companions urge him on to * CICERO, Ttisculan Disputations, lib. v., cap. 23. 52 " That last infirmity of noble minds, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." The calm repose and peaceful tranquillity of the place, far from the " busy hum of men," invite to... | |
 | James Thorne - 1847 - 480 דפים
...fire, but for the use of men and citizens." He felt, as he had already written, that c2 " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." "You ask me, of what I am thinking," he wrote to his friend Deodati about the termination of his abode... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1847 - 352 דפים
...written nobly of fame — as The spur which the clear spirit doth raise. Though he feels obliged to add (That last infirmity of noble minds), To scorn delights and live laborious days. Yet as fame is not altogether of a disinterested nature (though the interestedness is of the highest... | |
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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... 
