 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 Pierpont - 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 spirit... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pages
...discord, is " harmony not understood." Cry " Ivftiiut," and snap your fingers at controversy. Dare, ; as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair." If I go on longer at this rate, I shall get taken for Don Juan in disguise.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? y took, Because the fleece 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...incessant eare 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 spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 1824 - 456 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...ineessant eare To tend t}te homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strietly meditate the thankless Muse ? the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the elear sp'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 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 spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
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