 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? Fame...  The Heart of Oak Books - Page 303edited by - 1895Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...inchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament, 60 When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary 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, 65 And striftly meditate the thankless... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary 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 meditate the thankless Muse... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary 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 meditate the thankless... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...enchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary 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 meditate the thankless... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...inchanting son, Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary 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 meditate the thankless Muse... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Orpheu* bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...stream was sent, Down the swift Ilebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! wliat boots it with incessant 0 Q"G 1820 "Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown" Aikin John" John Aikin( the tangles of Ncnera's liair ? Fame is tin; spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly medkate 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...enchanting son ; Whom universal Nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary 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 meditate the thankless Muse... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the...Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless... | |
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