 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?  An Introduction to English Literature - Page 277by Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1907 - 656 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...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...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nezra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spi'rit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...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,...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 pages
...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,...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 pages
...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,...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 pages
...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,...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
...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, 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...was sent, /• 3Jown the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? g /. Alas ! what boots it with incessant care • /To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's...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
...stream was sent, Down the swift Ilebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! wliat boots it with incessant 0 Q"G 1820 "Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown" Aikin John" John Aikin( the tangles of Ncnera's liair ? Fame is tin; spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
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