...amiable, well-bred, accomplished young lady, in the course of it, and chattering away an hour with her, " Sporting with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Nesera's hair," as Milton expresses it — then to take a hot-bath, and dress — then to sit down to a plain substantial...

...speak gloriously of ' the whole world subdued except the indomitable soul of Cato,' and instead of sporting — ' With Amaryllis in the shade, Or With the tangles of Nesera's hair,' he could utter worthily, and in a manner which not even an Ennius or a Lucretius could have surpassed,...

...idyllic Polynesian to lie under the palms all day long, cooling his limbs in the sea occasionally, sporting with Amaryllis in the shade, or with the tangles of Nesera's hair, and waiting for the nuts to drop down in due time, when he ought (according to European notions) to 320...