 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...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 JVetsra's hair 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...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, as others...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... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1845 - 356 pages
...incessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Mute? Were it not better done, as others use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera'a hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVecera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And »trictly meditate B !@ the tangles of Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 pages
...better done, ;is 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 of noble minds) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of NeaBra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth...fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst oat into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred sheers, And slits the thin-spun life.... | |
| |
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 ? Fame... 
