...religious influence puts into the hands of government should not be constantly perverted by * Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. LYCIDAS. VOL. H. C government to its own purposes; and in this inevitable abuse we discern another...

...unostentatious CoUingwopd — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind !) To scprn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to fuufi And think to burst...

...observes that 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 of noble minds,) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. See also Paradise Regained, L. HI. sit. init. and...

...passages were probably in the mind of Milton, in those matchless verses of his Lycidast " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The...

...often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men.—Saaille. DCXCVII. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, To scorn delights and live laborious days; And think to...

...Lycidas." " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin sfun life !" The incidents of his life are briefly told. James...

...and lived laborious " days' for the sake of ' Fame, " ' (That last infirmity of noble mind) " ' Then, the fair guerdon when we hope to find, " ' And think...burst out into sudden blaze, " ' Comes the blind fury, ' " in the shape of brutish ignorance ; stubborn " prejudice; or false taste ; quashes all our hopes;...

...lamentation, is one of the finest passages in the whole compass of English verse:. — " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to bunt out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin spun...

...not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neeera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 55 wisard] on the wisard stream of Deva, consult Warton's note. x 63 swift] Vir. JEn. 1. 321. '...

...of expression which strongly brings to our recollection the passage in Milton's Lycidas, Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind. Lycid. 70. their own part, will be plain to us, after we have defined gratuitous benevolence. Now,...