 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?  Blackwood's Magazine - Стр. 2321823Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Bell - 1788 - Страниц: 628
...homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And striftly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others 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 - Страниц: 434
...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 pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Страниц: 560
...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 Nezra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - Страниц: 78
...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... | |
 | 1818 - Страниц: 806
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - Страниц: 832
...homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, ؘf 9 H ژ , 3 , P :G :W xU ;H R 4 Ә + the tangles of Ncnera's liair ? Fame is tin; spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 1822 - Страниц: 284
...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 shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 858
...discord, is " harmony not understood." Cry " Ivftiiut," and snap your fingers at controversy. Dare, ; as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair." If I go on longer at this rate, I shall get taken for Don Juan in disguise.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Страниц: 428
...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 spi'rit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - Страниц: 460
...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 (That last infirmity... | |
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