 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 Nesera's hair ? Fame is...  The English Poets: Ben Jonson to Dryden - Page 324edited by - 1880Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...inchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...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 pages
...enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...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 - 1812 - 78 pages
...inchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus...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
...herself that Orpheu* bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...,'His 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...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 Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, GO look within ; Control thy more voracious bill, Nor...for a breakfast nations kill." MATTHEW GREEN. iVl Ilebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! wliat boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted,... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrns to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant...the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly medkate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the... | |
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