 | Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 pagine
...miserabile tecum, Ut sint contentш patulas defundere pelves. III. — Translate into Greek Iambics. Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neœra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirits doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 504 pagine
...the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neasra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pagine
...the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade,...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neacra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 70 (That last infirmity... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pagine
...rivers, and therefore became a commonplace poetical epithet of them. Thus in Virg. Ain. iii. 76 Myconus Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, is called 'celsa, ' but 'humilis' in Ov. Met. vii. 463, and the lowlying Prochyta is designated 'alta,'... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pagine
...rivers, and therefore became a commonplace poetical epithet of them. Thus in Virg. s£n. iii. 76 Myconus Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, is called 'celsa,' but 'humilis' in Ov. Met. vii. 463, and the lowlying Prochyta is designated 'alta,'... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pagine
...did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas...clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble minds) To scorn delights and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pagine
...did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 242 pagine
...the ront that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hcbrus to the Lesbian shore ? Alas ! what boots it with incessant...use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nescra's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pagine
...there, Lycidas could not have perished in their so near vicinity ! And yet what could they have done ? "Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...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... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 pagine
...live, as often I would die. Milton alludes to Buchanan and the Neasra of this epigram in Lycidas, 64: Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the...use. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nercra's huir ? The oblique censure conveyed in these lines was deserved by Buchanan,... | |
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze... 
