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
| John Milton - 1872 - 568 pages
...fa-n~—^. When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, ^ -jLl, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? / ^//...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? e is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind), To scorn delights,... | |
| John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1872 - 614 pages
...the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? ?'~ Alas...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaara's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
| John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...Ireland. Denbighshire. e Calliope was the mother of Orpheus. When by the ront that made the hideous roar,1 His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down 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... | |
| 1873 - 466 pages
...breath ; To-night it doth inherit The vasty halls of death. MATTHEW ARNOLD. ! $!t boots it ? LAS ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely...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... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pages
...within it. The following eloquent passage contains a line that has almost passed into a proverb : — Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neosra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...contains a line that has almost passed into a proverb : — Alas ! what boots it with incessant caro To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that tho clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 136 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...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... | |
| 1909 - 502 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... | |
| William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...the steam was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade,...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Orpheus was the Antaeus of poetry. His strength descended from his mother, and when caught in the alien,... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...when the poet considers other poetic possibilities in 'Lycidas': Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade,...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (lines 64 9) There is a typical Miltonic ambiguity or duality here. Writing serious poetry is put up... | |
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