 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Strona 126autor: John Milton - 1832Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Bell - 1788 - Liczba stron: 628
...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 - Liczba stron: 434
...Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it...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
...lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it...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
...Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it...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
...Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it...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 - Liczba stron: 540
...the stream was sent, Down' the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - Liczba stron: 78
...Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it...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 - Liczba stron: 490
...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - Liczba stron: 832
...Lesbian shore ? Alas ! wliat boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, Aikin John" 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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