 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
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...circle spreads Like the round ocean girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night 1 or when Milton : Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neara's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...blazing cressets, fed with naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light as from a sky. J. MILTON 1167 FAME ALAS what boots it with incessant care to tend the...use, to sport with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Nea;ra's hair? Bl Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — the last infirmity... | |
 | 1866 - 376 pages
...have done ? What could the Muse herself, that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her inchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, » When by the rout...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, « And strictly meditate the thankless... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream— Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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 Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...sweetest, wildest land on earth. HOGG. Quecn's Wake. PAME. i THE breath of popular applause. HERRICK. 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 spire that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1867 - 448 pages
...political fame, that nobody is missed? Alas! then, are we not compelled to burst out with the poet ? — "What boots it with incessant care To tend the homely,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Ncoeras' hair? ' " Both Sir George and De Vere kindled at this ; and the doctor himself... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Ilebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! what boots it with incessant...others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Jr with the tangles of Neoera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 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 gory...care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others Use, To sport with... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebras to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant...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... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...that Orpheus bore,1 The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, lit) When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory...care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, 65 And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? fractiu Were it not better done, as others use, To sport... | |
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