 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 126by John Milton - 1832Full view - About this book
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 408 pages
...enforced to fly Thence into Egypt, till the murderous king Were dead, who sought his life." Milton. "Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair." Ibid. " I am not mad, I would to heaven I were, For then 'tis like I... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? WTere 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 infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade," 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? &&***(****Were it not better done , as others use, , , To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, TV \ Or with the tangles of Neacra's hair? J Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (/That... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 274 pages
...sixth stanza. " Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it...,, . To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neasra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Critics - 1836 - 286 pages
...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 infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Fiction - 1837 - 226 pages
...himself in vain." VOL. I.— L 122 THOUGHTS. CHAPTER II. " Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To strictly meditate the thankless muse ; Were it not...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nefera's hair V MILTON'S Lycidat. THERE is nothing more salutary to active men than... | |
 | Lord Edward Lytton Bulwer - 1837 - 376 pages
...wonder that he disquiets himself in vain." CHAPTER II. " Alas! what boots it with incessant care , To strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not...use , To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ?" MILTON'S Lycidas. THERE is nothing more salutary to active men than... | |
 | David Booth - 1837 - 360 pages
...enforced to fly Thence into Egypt, till the murderous king Were dead, who sought his life." MILTON. " Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesra's hair." IBID. " I am not mad, I would to heaven I were, For then 'tis like 1... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...Lycidas : Alas ! what boots it, with incessant care, To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse ? Were it...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Necero's hair ? Fame is the spur, which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it...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 TO (That last infirmity... | |
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