 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 Aikin - 1826 - 840 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 sliade, Or with the tangles of Ncara's liair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 400 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 ?' " Both Sir George and De Vere kindled at this ; and the Doctor himself... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 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 Nesra's hair?" " Both Sir George and De Vere kindled at this; and the Doctor himself... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...few, even of the most successful in the race after glory, who have not some time doubted if it Were not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neriea's hair. But shall such men, therefore, slumber out useless lives in inglorious... | |
 | TREUTTEL - 1828 - 794 pages
...find it necessary to practise, and banishing from life its natural and legitimate enjoyments ? — " Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nseara's hair ?" works, and the conclusions to which we should be led from the perusal... | |
 | David Booth - 1830 - 516 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 T were, For then 'tis like I... | |
 | David Booth - 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 - 1832 - 354 pages
...incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 6s 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 Neeera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 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... | |
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