| John Bell - 1788 - 628 trang
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And striftly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 trang
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 trang
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 trang
...Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done,...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, N2 Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 trang
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done,...others use, " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, N2 I LfCIDAS. IST That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd ; The air was calm, and on the level... | |
| John Milton - 1812 - 78 trang
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 trang
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse J Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shad*, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fnme is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That... | |
| 1823 - 782 trang
...discord, is " harmony not understood." Cry " ii/fnxa," and snap your fingers at controversy. Dare, _" as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Netera's hair." If I go on longer at this rate, I shall get taken for Don Juan in disguise.... | |
| 1818 - 806 trang
...his devotion for whom Milton was sup- S» posed, by Warton, to have alluded in '?* those lines : " Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nccera's hair." In ATta;ram. " Ilia mihi semper present! dura Neara, Me, quoties absum,... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 trang
...Alas ! wliat boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly John Aikin( the tangles of Ncnera's liair ? Fame is tin; spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
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