 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?  Littell's Living Age - Side 3441884Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 sider
...1638, 'do' for ' use,' is merely an error of the press, caused by the word 'done,' just preceding. 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 of noble mind — 70 softer... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sider
...of the morn. Line 26. Line 40. The gadding vine. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse. Line 66. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair. Line 68. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise1 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 sider
...taste did not accord, p'rom his 7th Elegy, however, we learn that he had once in his life yielded to a To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ! Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raiseThat last infirmity of noble mind — 70 softer... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 sider
...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 of noble mind) To scorn delights... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 898 sider
...never must return ! LineyjThe gadding vine. Line 40. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse. Line 66. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair. Line 68. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise.1 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1876 - 872 sider
...slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as l, and saw it pressed by other hands. Fortune came smiling to my youth, and wooed it. ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raiseThat last infirmity of noble mind — To scorn delights,... | |
 | 1876 - 508 sider
...shepherd's trade, LYCIDAS. 299 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 of noble minds) To scorn delights,... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 sider
...slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse 1 Were it nut better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair] 70 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 332 sider
...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 of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 700 sider
...strictly meditate the thankless Muse.' He would not go on and ask himself, 'Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? ' His intercourse with the little school-mistress would be much too prosaic to be thus described.... | |
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