...in just proportion, envy grows ; The man that makes a character, makes foes. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days. YOUNO MILTON The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame....

...noble makes certain, and so overpowers the cravings of sense by the desire of fame. " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights and live laborious days." There can be no doubt, therefore, that education has a civilizing effect on man ; and this opinion,...

...crowning work by 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...

...crowning work by 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 acorn the sordid world and...

...crowning work by making the poetry of it a stalking-horse for hia 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...

...abroad ; and he would not abandon his enterprise as long as strength remained. " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. To scorn delights and live laborious days." He would not give up the struggle with mighty icebergs and thick -ribbed ice as long as the smallest...

...crowning work by 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...

...that we agree with him. We would be the last to undervalue that enterprising eagerness for fame ' that the clear spirit doth raise To scorn delights, and live laborious days ' — which has been the parent of so many noble deeds, and which, we are proud to say, has never associated...

...an example and encouragement to all who expect to achieve greatness, or would feel " The spur, that the clear spirit doth raise" — " To scorn delights, and live laborious days." Amid his severer studies, however, he seems to have had a keen sense of the humorous, and to have picked...

...whenever he crossed the threshold of his own house. Burke had now a double motive to exertion. Animated by that love of fame — " Which the clear spirit...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...