 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?  Bell's Edition - Página 113por John Bell - 1788Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...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,...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 spirit... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 páginas
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant eare 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 spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 páginas
...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 Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly ebrew priests the more unkindly took, Because the...accompanies the flock. Some thought they God's anointed me the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear sp'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 1824 - 456 páginas
...on which I wish to offer some remark, since the reference of Milton has not been noticed by Warton : Were it not better done, as others use To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? These lines contain a sarcastic allusion to Buchanan, who often wandered... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, C5 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it r.ot better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 69 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...Alas ! what boots it with ineessant eare To tend t}te homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strietly the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the elear sp'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
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