...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...minds), To scorn delights and live laborious days." Journal Generate de Medicine, de Chirurgie el de Pharmacie ; ou, Recueil periodique de la Sociite •...

...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 a reference to...

...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 study fire, in...

...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...minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden bluze, Comes the blind...

...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 think to burst out...

...touched in the nevertiring, though ever-cited, passage of Milton's Lycidas\ « Fame is the spur that ike clear spirit doth raise, ( That last infirmity of...minds, ) 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...

...circumstances of exertion, and the spur of fame : " Fame is the spur, that the clear spirit doth raise (The last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Education claims farther merit from a decisive character, having taught him at first to do all things...

...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...minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. See also Paradise Regained, L. HI. sit. init. and the notes of Dr. Jortin. is scarcely permitted by...

...distinguished benefactors of the human race. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (The last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days." I must not dismiss this subject without taking some notice of a theory started by Mr. Hume with respect...

...justly applicable, as they were to his own friend, the " much lovM Lycidas." " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of...minds) 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...