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? Fame is... The Public School Speaker - Page 313by Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 570 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...have done? What oould the Muse herself, that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nercca's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...have done? What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore, The mu£* herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse? WTere it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 274 pages
...flame, Might make me dear to Him from whom they came." * Turn to Milton's Lycidas, sixth stanza — " 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... | |
| Severn river - 1859 - 408 pages
...enchanting son? Whom universal Nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus...in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, That last infirmity of noble mind, To scorn delights... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...there, Lycidas could not have perished in their so near vicinity ! And yet what could they have done ? "Alas! what boots It with incessant care To tend the...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of N'esera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That list infirmity... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
| John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His...use, To sport with Amaryllis, in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
| John Milton - 1861 - 534 pages
...herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, 60 When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His...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 70 (That last infirmity... | |
| 1890 - 366 pages
...enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar II is gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
| Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 230 pages
...have done ? What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore, The muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? Delicias Lycidam vestras sub vortice torsit? Nam neque vos scopulis turn... | |
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