 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?  Blackwood's Magazine - Сторінка 2321823Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 стор.
...homely slighted Shepherd's trade. And 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? (11. 64-69) The rest of the poem's speakers will attempt, in one way... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - 1997 - 344 стор.
...Milton's own vocational doubts as to why, indeed, one should live laborious days: Were it not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair. (Memoirs, 1:469-70). After his death Brand Hollis continued his adoptive... | |
 | Susan Snyder - 1998 - 268 стор.
...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... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 стор.
...the homely slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? [64-69] The sense of release in these lines is almost as powerful as... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 стор.
...homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done ow And leaden- the tangles of Neaera's hair? 7529 'Lycidas' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 стор.
...effort to attain literary greatness is not wasted in the face of sudden death: "Were it not better done as others use / To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, / Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?" (Lycidas, 67-69). By depicting Concord's arrival on "Britain's ravaged... | |
 | Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 стор.
...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 Naera's hair? Out of the corner of my eye I seem to catch a headstone with my name on... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 стор.
...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 Ntatra's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 7° (That last infirmity... | |
 | 2005 - 334 стор.
...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... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - 244 стор.
..."The World" exercises an undeniable "Attraction," even for a solitary; then Were it not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles ofNeaera's hair? No mind, however deep in ancient history and gothic architecture, is dead... | |
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