...with exten3G2 si ve sive acquirements; and, above all, an Ardent desire for reputation. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds), To scorn delights and live laborious days." Journal Generate de Medicine, de Chirurgie el de...

...commonplace books he had written these mottoes. AAAA TAP E2TIN MOT2A KAI HMIN EURIP: MEDEA. 1091. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds), To scorn delight, and live laborious days. MILTON'S LYCIDAS, 70. Under these lines was placed...

...that best reward of their literary labours, (independently of their expeditious sale,) "THAT FAME, the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, " (That last infirmity of noble minds) " To scorn delight, and live laborious days,* blow out their midnight lamp, and extinguish their...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shad*, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fnme is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...

...lion's mane." But to Tasso, how forcibly do the following pathetick lines of Lycidas apply. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delight and live laborious days. But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, Ainl...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 65 70 63. Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore.] In calling Hebrus swift, Milton, who is avaricious...

...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame it the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) Tii scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...

...this title. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Faroe is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and UVC laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden...

...unostentatious CoUingwopd — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind !) To scprn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to fuufi And think to burst...

...observes that that interpretation * Thus Milton, in a fine passage of his exquisite Lycidas : Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. See also Paradise Regained, L. HI. sit. init. and...