 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 Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review - Page 4361823Full view - About this book
 | Edward Phillips - 1675 - 310 pages
...enthusiasm ; and to doubt the power of that genius, in which it is so delightful to have faith. « Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, Shepherd's care, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, 65 And striftly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1807 - 628 pages
...reward of our unshaken virtue, is more elegantly described, or more forcibly recommended. VOL. i. o Alas! what boots it, with incessant care To tend the...Were it not better done, as 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles pf Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that. the clear spirit... | |
 | British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1899 - 756 pages
...and who is the author? 2. In the original poem the word " meditate " occurs in these lines : — '' Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless MuseT' Does the use of the word in this connection agree with that in line 1 of the extract 1 3. Justify... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, N2 Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the I-esbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...Were it not better done, as 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...it not better done, as others use, " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, N2 I LfCIDAS. IST That not a blast was from his dungeon stray'd ; The air was... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alts ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely,...Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair Î Fame is the spur that the clear spirit... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 pages
...roar, His goaty visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alis ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely,...thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, _ . To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair í Fame is the spur... | |
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