 Alas! what boots it with uncessant 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?  Ernest Maltravers - Strona 102autor: Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - Liczba stron: 452
...: — " Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not...in the shade, 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,... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - Liczba stron: 194
...asks, Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade And stricty meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (64-69) The swain's question focuses on the two issues that the poem's consolations will address. He... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - Liczba stron: 630
...Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And stricdy meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's104 hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 And think to... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - Liczba stron: 936
...Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not...in the shade. Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scom delights,... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - Liczba stron: 294
...years":71 Alas! What boots it with uncessant care, To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade. And to strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (11. 64-69) The rest of the poem's speakers will attempt, in one way or the other, to answer this question,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - Liczba stron: 708
...significance: Alas, what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade And strictly meditate the thankless muse? Were it not...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (64-69) These lines must be read in their context. The sudden death of Lycidas 'ere his prime' causes... | |
 | Elizabeth Gaskell - 1997 - Liczba stron: 724
...all; but it was with an effort that she brought herself to believe it. It may be all very pleasant 'to sport with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Neaera's hair,' 3 but young men at the outset of their independent life have many other cares in this prosaic England... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - Liczba stron: 344
...Milton's own vocational doubts as to why, indeed, one should live laborious days: Were it not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair. (Memoirs, 1:469-70). After his death Brand Hollis continued his adoptive father's mission to America;... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - Liczba stron: 686
...'Lycidas' Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And and spectre-thin, and Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden- 7529 'Lycidas' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind)... | |
 | Susan Snyder - 1998 - Liczba stron: 268
...rewards: Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not...in the shade, 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,... | |
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