...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...laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And...

...often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men — Saville. Dcxcvn. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And...

...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...

...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...laborious days ; But 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...

...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,...

...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. I.ycid. 70. their own part, will be plain to us, after we have defined gratuitous benevolence. Now,...