 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 - Page 2321823Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...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 - 434 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...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 - 78 pages
...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 - 806 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...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... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 858 pages
...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 - 428 pages
...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 - 460 pages
...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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