 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?  Sketches of Great Painters - Page 187by Edwin Watts Chubb - 1915 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 pages
...murderous king Were dead, who sought his life." Milton. "Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair." Ibid. " I am not mad, I would to heaven I were, For then 'tis like I should forget my selfe : * •... | |
 | 1889 - 552 pages
...shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate 4 the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done as others use,5 To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair ? 1 Anglesea. 2 The Dee was said to have certain magical properties. 3 Calliope. See the story of Orpheus.... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - 1890 - 522 pages
...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 Milton - 1890 - 566 pages
...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 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1891 - 314 pages
...brow corrugated by care, his cheeks worn by thought, his hair and beard stiffly curled and bulllike ; his expression sad and intense, with a weary longing...could not " sport with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Nesera's hair." Art was his mistress, and a stern mistress she was, urging him ever... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 242 pages
...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 70 (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Maude Fennell - 1891 - 868 pages
...Order Amaryllidaceae, with fine bellshaped flowers. 1637 Were it not better done, as others use, I To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, | Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? MILTON, Lycidas, 68. 1829 AMARYLLIS, lily-asphodel : a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1891 - 384 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 pages
...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... | |
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