 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1844 - 468 páginas
...wonder that he disquiets himself in vain." CHAPTER II. " Alas 1 what hoots it with incessant care, To strictly meditate the thankless Muse ; Were it not...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair?" — MILTON'S Lycidas: THERE is nothing more salutary to active men than... | |
 | 1844 - 616 páginas
...pursuits of literature. The question put by old Milton, in whose days the " Muse" was "thankless," viz., " Were it not better done as others use To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ?" IB now satisfactorily answered. As old men, we rejoice at the spirit... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVetera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 páginas
...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neeera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 páginas
...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of JVetsra's hair 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ( That last infirmity... | |
 | 1845 - 732 páginas
...omit what no other words can tell so well : — " Alas ! what boots it, with incessant care To ply the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly...Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amatyllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the Jspur that the clear spright... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...hideous roar, His gory 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, And strictly meditate0 the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1845 - 356 páginas
...admirably expresses this sentiment as properly belonging to a consciousness of future retributive justice. Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Mute? Were it not better done, as others use.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 páginas
...true : an ape, although she be clothed in purple, will be but an ape. Halt, p. 1Í9. Alas! what boon it with 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... | |
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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? 
