 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?  The Academy - Page 2261873Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 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 infirmity... | |
 | 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 infirmity... | |
 | William Hayley - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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 infirmity... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1823 - 782 pages
...discord, is " harmony not understood." Cry " ii/fnxa," and snap your fingers at controversy. Dare, _" as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Netera's hair." If I go on longer at this rate, I shall get taken for Don Juan in disguise.... | |
 | 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 absum,... | |
 | John Aikin - 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 4 Ә + the tangles of Ncnera's liair ? Fame is tin; spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 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 infirmity... | |
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