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" 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 126
by John Milton - 1832
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1858 - 264 pages
...meditate the thankless muse ? To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Xeara'a 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...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 1

David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...have done ? "Alas! what boots It with incessant caro 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 Neaa-a'e hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...
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Sabrinae corolla, in hortulis regiae scholae Salopiensis ..., Page 68

Severn river - English poetry - 1859 - 408 pages
...Lesbian shore. 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 Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...not better don 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 of Noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious dayes; But the fair Guerdon when we hope to find, And think to...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...his prime 26 Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 0 Hid in the tangles of Neaera's hair? 27 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...in 'Lycidas': Alas! What boots it with uncessant 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 Neaera's hair? (lines 64 9) There is a typical Miltonic ambiguity or duality here. Writing...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...poem: Alas what boots it with uncessant care To ply the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And stricdy 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? novel: much of it is compressed into these six plangent lines of Ly atlas,...
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Death in Milton's Poetry

Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...asks, Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade And stricty 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) The swain's question focuses on the two issues that the poem's...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant 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 Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...significance: Alas, what boots it with uncessant 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 Neaera's hair? (64-69) These lines must be read in their context. The sudden death of...
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