 | John Bell - 1788 - Liczba stron: 628
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? 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 as others use, To sport with Amaryllis... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - Liczba stron: 434
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 - Liczba stron: 560
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - Liczba stron: 414
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - Liczba stron: 418
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - Liczba stron: 490
...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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... | |
 | 1823 - Liczba stron: 782
...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 - Liczba stron: 806
...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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Liczba stron: 366
...,'His gory visage down the stream was sent, /• 3Jown the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? g /. Alas ! what boots it with incessant care • /To tend...trade, .- And strictly meditate the thankless Muse > /- ', WeW it not better done, as others use, _, f To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, £ o Or with... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - Liczba stron: 380
...Phoebus tips with fire," poor Burns was assuredly not one who neglected, for the sake of the Muses, " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair." i -...', But it would be quite silly to trouble you with such minutiae as these ; — the true defect... | |
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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 as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? 
