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? Bell's Edition - Strona 113autor: John Bell - 1788Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - Liczba stron: 686
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly re-thin, and Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden- the tangles of Neaera's hair? 7529 'Lycidas' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That... | |
| Susan Snyder - 1998 - Liczba stron: 268
...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...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
| William Harmon - 1998 - Liczba stron: 386
...Alas! What boots it witli uncessant 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, Hid with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
| Walter Wimmel - 1998 - Liczba stron: 416
...(op. cit.,p. 64). The poet's fascination with coma is remarkable, and finds a parallel in Milton's "Were it not better done, as others use, / To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, / Or with(e) the tangles of Neaeia's hair?" (Lycidas, 67-69). Tibullus enters a less controlled world than... | |
| Deborah Elise White - 2000 - Liczba stron: 252
...in rage whether the effort to attain literary greatness is not wasted in the face of sudden death: "Were it not better done as others use / To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, / Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?" (Lycidas, 67-69). By depicting Concord's arrival on "Britain's ravaged... | |
| Kent Gramm - 2001 - Liczba stron: 350
...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...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaeras hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - Liczba stron: 1084
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Ntatra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 7° (That last infirmity... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - Liczba stron: 1012
...Alas! What boots it with uncessant care0 To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade,0 And strictly meditate the thankless muse, Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,0 Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?0 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise0 70... | |
| 2005 - Liczba stron: 334
...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 Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
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