 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 oldal
...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 Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 oldal
...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 sliade, Or with the tangles of Ncara's liair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 oldal
...obliquely censured by Milton in the following passage of Lycidas, hitherto not exactly understood, v. 67. " Were it not better done, as others use, " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade " Or with the tangles of Neceras hair?" The Amaryllis, to whom Milton alludes, is the Amaryllis of Buchanan,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 652 oldal
...countenance, strive to excel each other in rich attire." Alas ! what boots it with incessant care strictly meditate the thankless muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amarillis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair Î But let UB be just to our student;... | |
 | 1826 - 696 oldal
...countenance, strive to excel each other in rich attire." Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To strictly meditate the thankless muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amarillis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesra's hair ? But let us be just to our student; he... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 oldal
...poet:— ' 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 Nesera's hair?' " Both Sir George and De Vere kindled at this; and the Doctor himself... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 400 oldal
...— * 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 Nesera's hair ?' " Both Sir George and De Vere kindled at this ; and the Doctor himself... | |
 | 1827 - 590 oldal
...few, even of the most successful in the race after glory, who have not some time doubted if it Were not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neriea's hair. But shall such men, therefore, slumber out useless lives in inglorious... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 oldal
...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, • The Isles OF Anglesey and of Man have both shared this title. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,... | |
 | TREUTTEL - 1828 - 794 oldal
...find it necessary to practise, and banishing from life its natural and legitimate enjoyments ? — " Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nseara's hair ?" works, and the conclusions to which we should be led from the perusal... | |
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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? 
