 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 Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 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... | |
 | Acrostics - 1865 - 260 pages
...the young-eyed cherubins.' 4. ' The chord alone that breaks at night, Its tale of ruin tells.' 5. ' Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? ' 6. ' I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Arragon comes this night... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...is perhaps equally felicitous, and the familiar passage on fame is as beautiful as it is popular. " Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, 41 Or with the tangles of Neeera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last... | |
 | 1866 - 444 pages
...all this up-hill effort, all this courting of obloquy, all this spitting against the east wind ? " Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nenea'8 hair ? " But his measure of success or of wisdom differed somewhat from that... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1990 - 208 pages
...the homely slighted Shepherds trade And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (Milton, Lycidas, 11. 64-69) 47:33. RC Coffin has pointed out that "bother!"... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? s . 0 Hid in the tangles of Neaera's hair? 27 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...the homely slighted Shepherds trade, Andftriftly meditate the thanldes Muse, Were it not better don as others use, To Sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles o/Ncxia'shair? Fame is the Spur that the clear Spirit doth raise (That kff infirmity of... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...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? (lines 64 9) There is a typical Miltonic ambiguity or duality here. Writing... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 pages
...uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade And stricty 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? (64-69) The swain's question focuses on the two issues that the poem's... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...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? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
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