...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...minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." "You ask me, of what I am thinking," he wrote to his friend Deodati about the termination of his abode...

...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind, To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...

...written nobly of fame — as The spur which the clear spirit doth raise. Though he feels obliged to add (That last infirmity of noble minds), To scorn delights and live laborious days. Yet as fame is not altogether of a disinterested nature (though the interestedness is of the highest...

...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 ;...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, < r with the tangles ofNemra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...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, ( omes the blind...

...authority showed that there were fourteen thousand living authors in Germany, with whom : " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and liye laborious days." He was probably included in this number. The first appearance of Berlin is not...

...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the «hade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's so mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, And...

...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." IV. Hume's Theory respecting its Origin.] I must not dismiss this subject without taking some notice...

...fire, but for the use of men and citizens." He felt, as he had already written, that " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble miuds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days." " You ask me, of what I am thinking," he wrote...

...not All ; (So Flaccus hoped), and half escape the pall.* The Sacred Few ! whom love of glory binds, " That last infirmity of noble minds, " To scorn delights, and live laborious days,"f And win thro' lofty toil undying praise. What if for These, now verging to the tomb, As yet,...