 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 - Side 2321823Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 sider
...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 sider
...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... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 462 sider
...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 Neoeras' hair? ' " Both Sir George and De Vere kindled at this ; and the doctor himself... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 220 sider
...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? Delicias Lycidam vestras sub vortice torsit? Nam neque TOS scopulis tum... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 sider
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 sider
...what boots it with uncessant care 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 Neara's hair? To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, ,55 (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 sider
...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 7o (That last infirmity... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sider
...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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 sider
...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, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 sider
...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... | |
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