...Pennant's Tours in Wales, vol. ip 257, edit. 1Я10. Are not Milton's celebrated lines, " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble minds,)" taken from Tacitus ? He says, Etiam sapientibus, cupido yloriœ novissima ел-nitur. ERRATA....

...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...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd...

...Ncirra's hair Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily of noble mind) 71 ГО. PRIOR. САКТО Ш. Yet, if these finer whims...on ; But spoil the engine of digestion, And you e the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. " But not the praise," Phoebus replied, and touch'd...

...much as a castration: Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of nohle mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days;...burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. (70-6) In response to this crisis, the poem initially...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the (angles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days. 'Lycldas' lift 581 1. ft" 3 Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun...

...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretch'd straw. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. — John Milton, Lycidas I Central to the apologiae...

...increasingly untenable, yet also what the ego seems to crave most, the event continuous with fame, "the spur that the clear spirit doth raise / (That last...noble mind) / To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes" (Lycidas, lines 70-72). The covenant of works, here a kind of purgatorial aesthetic, displaces...

...Tacitus, as has been assumed by Crossley, The Correspondence 7 If., who compares Milton's 'Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (that last infirmity of noble mind) to scorn delights'; by Priebe II l 3; Schwierczina, Frontoniana 33; Teuffel 3,75; Schanz IIP l00; Selvatico, Scambio 294...

...never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne, Meditation, XVII (1624) H But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. John Milton, l.yddas (1637) is Life itself is but...

...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaeras hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise," Phoebus repli'd, and touch'd my trembling ears; 294 "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor...