 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 1 Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind)  Paradise Regained: Samson Agonistes, Comus and Arcades - 第36页作者：John Milton - 1827 - 372 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | John T. Shawcross - 2010 - 246 页
...biographical detail for some—who wonders like Milton momentarily considering whether it is not better don as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (“Lycidas,” 67=69) For where will sound his echoing song? The personality that the poem seems to... | |
 | Walter J. Moore, Walter John Moore - 1992 - 532 页
...certainly had lived some laborious days, but he had not scorned all delights, and had even found time 'to sport with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Neaera's hair.' Congratulations poured in from all over the world. Lindemann wrote immediately to Rintoul at ICI T... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 页
...in 'Lycidas': Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (lines 64-9) There is a typical Miltonic ambiguity or duality here. Writing serious poetry is put up... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 页
...enter the poem: Alas what boots it with uncessant care To ply the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse? Were it...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure describes how an earnest young man is distracted from his studies by... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 页
...asks, Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade And stricty meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? (64-69) The swain's question focuses on the two issues that the poem's consolations will address. He... | |
 | Steven Shankman - 1994 - 360 页
...slighted Shepherds trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse. Were it not better don as others usc, 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,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 页
...Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it...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,... | |
 | Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 434 页
...have confronted: Alas! What boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Thus John Milton had expressed the dilemma in 'Lycidas' (1637), a pastoral work in which the poet is... | |
 | Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 434 页
...have confronted: Alas! What boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherds trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Thus John Milton had expressed the dilemma in ‘Lycidas' (1637), a pastoral work in which the poet... | |
 | Lizbeth Goodman - 1996 - 422 页
...have confronted: Alas! What boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade. And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it...in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Thus John Milton had expressed the dilemma in 'Lycidas' (1637), a pastoral work in which the poet is... | |
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