 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...  P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica et Georgica - Page 104by Virgil - 1922 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And striftly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...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 pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...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, N2 I LfCIDAS. IST That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd ; The air was calm, and on the level... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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, N2 Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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 Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 - 806 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? c! kh aio ðH Sn J< ؘf 9 H ژ , 3 , P :G :W xU ;H R Or with the tangles of Ncnera's liair ? Fame is tin; spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...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 tvith the tangles of Neaera's hair? Leuon 158.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. Fame is the spur that the clear... | |
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