 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 Neaera's hair?  Bell's Edition - עמוד 113מאת John Bell - 1788תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 דפים
...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...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 דפים
...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,...of Nezra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn delights and live laborious days... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 דפים
...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,...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 דפים
...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,...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 דפים
...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...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 דפים
...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 of Neaera's hair ? Fnme is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That... | |
 | 1818 - 806 דפים
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 דפים
...Alas ! wliat boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly John Aikin( the tangles of Ncnera's liair ? Fame is tin; spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 דפים
...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,...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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 דפים
...what boots it with incessant care To tend 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 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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