...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVecera's hair ? Fame 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...

...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...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVetera's hair ? Fame 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...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Ne&ra's hair ? Fame 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...

...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,...

...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 of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days." Dr. Johnson said that the man who had seen the Great...

...Fame has been beautifully pictured by our great Epic poet, in his " Lycidas," — " Fame is the spnr that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, aud live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden...

...come, it would be only by a part of the human world that his grandeur would be apprehended. " Fame, the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind," is infinitely more precious than gold to every true musician as well as to every true poet ; the heart...

...miserable, Doing or suffering : PL, i. 157. Thy frailty and innrmer sex forgiven. Id., x. 956. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) « scorn delights, and live laborious days. ' Lyci&u,' 71. 9 "—Come hither in thy hour of strength...

...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 of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." "You ask me, of what I am thinking," he wrote to...