 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 - الصفحة 113بواسطة John Bell - 1788عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Aikin - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 840
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To lend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly hose counsels aid the sovereign power To save the...hour! What scene» of evil ho unravels, In satire» the tangles of Ncirra's hair Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...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 Nescra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 830
...Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly scure, Far on excursion toward the gates of Hell^...legion (such command we had) To see that none Jhe the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 826
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse t . the tangles of Netera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit dolh raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...he disquiets himself in vain." CHAPTER II. " Alas 1 what hoots it with incessant care, To 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?" — MILTON'S Lycidas: THERE is nothing more salutary to active men than... | |
 | 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...pursuits of literature. The question put by old Milton, in whose days the " Muse" was "thankless," viz., " Were it not better done as others use To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ?" IB now satisfactorily answered. As old men, we rejoice at the spirit... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...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 Ne&ra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...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 JVetera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 838
...Alas! what boon it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And stricljy meditate the thankless muse? Were it not better done,...use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Miltm. Lycid. But why alas, do mortal men in vain Of fortune, fate or... | |
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