 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 oldal
...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 better done...use, To sport with Amaryllis 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 oldal
...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? (64-69) These lines must be read in their context. The sudden death of... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 oldal
...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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 oldal
...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 - 268 oldal
...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 - 386 oldal
...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 - 416 oldal
...(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... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 oldal
...the homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? [64-69] The sense of release in these lines is almost as powerful as... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 oldal
...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 - 350 oldal
...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... | |
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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? 
