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" The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. "
Putnam's Monthly - Strona 216
1853
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The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State Progress, Tom 4

Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1881 - Liczba stron: 558
...with eagle's wing, from deeds fulfilled to higher summits of achievements yet to be. Yes, Fame la the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. To scorn delights and live laborious day. THE KEENE RAID. THE SUBSTANCE OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS TAKEN FTOM THE HISTORY OF OF GILSUM...
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Non-miraculous Christianity: And Other Sermons Preached in the Chapel of ...

George Salmon - 1881 - Liczba stron: 352
...gain. It is not true, or it is a mere fraction of the truth, that " love of fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise to scorn delights and live laborious days." An unsubstantial recompense, if this were all ; nor would prudence find it easy to justify the giving...
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Friends and foes of Jesus Christ, and other sermons

Francis Edmund C. Byng (5th earl of Strafford.) - 1881 - Liczba stron: 288
...retirement, where nought, as he thinks, shall break in upon his rest. He is not one of those "whom the clear spirit doth raise, to scorn delights and live laborious days," * but rather of that feeble and effeminate class which asks that its life may be free from anxiety,...
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The life of John Duncan, with sketches of his friends [&c.].

William Jolly - 1883 - Liczba stron: 576
...neither of which were very correct. soul, hidden away from the world, fame was not and could not be " The spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days." That "fair guerdon " he never followed nor hoped to find, though it found him in the end. His pursuit...
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The Royal Readers: Special Canadian Series ..., Księga 5

1883 - Liczba stron: 528
...sources, giving context, the following quotations which occur in this READER : — 1. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights and live laborious days." 2. " He prayeth best who loveth best." 3. " As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day...
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The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English dictionary, Tom 4

John Ogilvie - 1883 - Liczba stron: 832
...continue in constantly or habitually; to pass; to spend; as, to live a life of ease. Fame is the spnr that the clear spirit doth raise . . . To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton. 1 To act habitually in conformity to. It is not enough to say prayers, unless they lire them...
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The Tatler: a once-a-week journal, Tom 1

1883 - Liczba stron: 394
...company." 4- + + A schoolgirl was asked the other day to paraphrase th« lines — " Fame IB the spur which the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days." HOW I LEARNED TO GOLF. IT happened ae summer lately that my twa sons took a house doon at Fisher-raw,...
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Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton: Knt., LL. D., D. C. L., M. R. I ..., Tom 2

Robert Perceval Graves - 1885 - Liczba stron: 752
...it will still be true that in the greatest number of cases and of the highest quality, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days. That mysterious joy — incomprehensible if man were wholly mortal, which accompanies the hope of influencing...
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Literary Workers: Or Pilgrims to the Temple of Honour

John George Hargreaves - 1889 - Liczba stron: 374
...suggester of great productions. It is as true in our times as it was in Milton's, that ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days.' But it is equally true, as he also says, ' that it is often an infirmity of noble minds.' Sought merely...
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary essays

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - Liczba stron: 432
...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...
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