 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?  Milton's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: An Essay - Pagina 278door Ida Langdon - 1924 - 342 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pagina’s
...hideous roar, His goary visage down 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, 65 And striftly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pagina’s
...important, more dignified, '.Ai.:*?, Al'ETAS &£ Lxra.ra.vyKa.iw. It is time that he should cease ' To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of N'eaera's hair.' Besides what we have already remarked upon, the book before us contains a translation from the Spanish... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pagina’s
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 pagina’s
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 - 1810 - 414 pagina’s
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 pagina’s
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 pagina’s
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 pagina’s
...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
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