 | Encyclopaedia - 1850 - Liczba stron: 368
...is not that great men do not wish to be known to after ages : Milton has well said— " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days." But still, this " last infirmity of noble minds," is one which we should be as little proud of displaying... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - Liczba stron: 597
...look down on fame as l that last infirmity of noble minds,' had not forgotten that it was — " The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days."* The natural bent of character is, perhaps, better ascertained from the undisturbed and unconscious... | |
 | Sid Smith - 1850 - Liczba stron: 304
...than anxiety of mind ; if he would train himself in that cheerful self denying intrepidity which " The clear spirit doth raise. To scorn delights, and live laborious days," if he would rather lie harder that he may sleep sounder, than slumber fitfully in troubled dreams,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles James Blomfield - 1851 - Liczba stron: 414
...paramount, may prove the subject of no mean speculation to the philosophic mind. The love of fame — The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days — seems to have failed in obtaining its accustomed meed among some of the most eminent individuals... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1853 - Liczba stron: 274
...heralded abroad ; and he will not abandon his enterprise as long as strength remains. " Fame Is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days." He will not give up the struggle with mighty icebergs and thick-ribbed ice as long as the smallest... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh, Robert James Mackintosh - 1854 - Liczba stron: 598
...look down on fame as " that last infirmity of noble minds," had not forgotten that it was— " The spur that the clear spirit doth raise. To scorn delights, and live laborious days." * The natural bent of character is, perhaps, better ascertained from the undisturbed and unconscious... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1854 - Liczba stron: 382
...his own house. Burke had now a double motive to exertion. Animated by that love of fame — " Which the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." and at the same time by that sense of duty which is not the least laudable incitement to mental energy,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - Liczba stron: 474
...doth raise To tcorn delights, and live laborious dava. Thin the gro it lor.U of spiritual fame amase Their souls, and think it good To eat of angels' food....with wind. They do the noble works of noble mind. Keputp, and often bread, the world refuse. They go unto their place. The greatest of the race. What... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 518
...meaning (said one of my German friends) than the mere words import ; it refers not exactly to " the spur that the clear spirit doth raise" To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; but to some inward impulse to " continued, though not headlong, progress ;" or it might be rendered... | |
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The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 
