 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?  De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence - Página 210por Robert Plumer Ward - 1827Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 páginas
...roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 páginas
...roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely...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 páginas
...roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely,...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 páginas
...roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely,...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 páginas
...roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely,...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... | |
 | 1823 - 782 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...gory visage down the stream was sent, /• 3Jown the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? g /. Alas ! what boots it with incessant care • /To tend the...trade, .- And strictly meditate the thankless Muse > /- ', WeW it not better done, as others use, _, f To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, £ o Or with... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 380 páginas
...Phoebus tips with fire," poor Burns was assuredly not one who neglected, for the sake of the Muses, " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair." i -...', But it would be quite silly to trouble you with such minutiae as these ; — the true defect... | |
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