 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 Seiten
...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 Ne&ra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate0 the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nerera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise — That last infirmity... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And »trictly meditate the thankless Muse ! L M N O the tangles of Neœra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That lost infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 Seiten
...slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not 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,... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 Seiten
...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 Nraera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 Seiten
...incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse 1 Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, < r with the tangles ofNemra's hair I Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse I 1 1 1 «hade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ! Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse I e to find, And think ! Fame ia the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
 | Mary Kirby - 1850 - 204 Seiten
...country girl. "Tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida sylvas." VIRGIL, ECLOGA I. "Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade." LTCIDAS. Daffodils are called ' Lent lilies ' in the south of England, and in Sweden the churches are... | |
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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? 
