 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 síður
...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 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 síður
...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 pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 síður
...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, N2 Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 síður
...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, N2 I LfCIDAS. IST That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd ; The air was calm, and on the level... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 síður
...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...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 síður
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 782 síður
...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 síður
...mistress, to 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 Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 380 síður
...Phoebus tips with fire," poor Burns was assuredly not one who neglected, for the sake of the Muses, " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair." i -...', But it would be quite silly to trouble you with such minutiae as these ; — the true defect... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 síður
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? c! kh aio ðH Sn J< ؘ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... | |
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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? 
