 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 224 Seiten
...THOUGHTS. CHAPTER II. " Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To 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 ?" MILTON'S Lyadat. THERE is nothing more salutary to active men than... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 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 Necero's hair ? Fame is the spur, which the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 Seiten
...incessant 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 Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1839 - 472 Seiten
...engross his attention ; and his life, though nominally given to contemplation, is little else than " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair." * He goes to his books, to enjoy a certain mild delirium of the mind, regardless of the claims of society,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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 Neaera's hair * Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Augustus Longworth - 1840 - 714 Seiten
...Assuredly, it proves a fool's paradise to many, where they neglect the business that brought them there, " To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair." From these, with anything to bestow in the shape of presents, they find it not very easy to extricate... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...incessant care To lend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? gn power To save the nation every hour! What scene» of evil ho unravels, In satire» the tangles of Ncirra's hair Í Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last iniinnily... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 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 Nescra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Coxe - 1842 - 214 Seiten
...the Redeemer wage a fierce war against Him, and false friends have torn his very body. Is this a time To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair? We are called to a severer work. The trumpet, not the lute — the war-song, not the love-lay, are... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? the gates of Hell^ Sqoar'd in full legion (such command...To see that none Jhence issued forth « spy. )r e ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) 71 To scorn... | |
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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? 
