 For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without...  Little Classics: Poems, lyrical - Sida 109redigerad av - 1875Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 sidor
...conveyed into Troy: " Equum " divina Palladis arte eedificant." Milton is still bolder when he says, Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.* The phrase, however, though bold, is emphatical, and gives a noble idea of the durability * In the... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 sidor
...mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, arid somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 sidor
...mellowing year: Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. •VOL. IV. N Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 sidor
...mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of sojne melodious tear. vob. jv. к J LYCIDAS. The willows, and the hazel copses green, Shall now no... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sidor
...year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For'Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. lie must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 sidor
...mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead : dead ere his prime ; Young Lycidas,...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 sidor
...Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is d«.ad, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left...his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme* He must not float upon his watVy bier Unwept) and welter... | |
 | Edward Berwick - 1813 - 584 sidor
...excellent studies expired. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF CNEIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS Neget quis carmina Gallo. VIROIV Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. • OF CNEIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS. CORNELIUS GALLUS was born about the year of Rome 687, and though some... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 sidor
...of the commentators on Milton have pointed out his allusion to this passage in the Lycidas, v. 15, Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath, the seat, of Jove doth spring. Milton, with whom Euripides was a favourite poet, seems to have read, with Lascaris, x»'m*;, which... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 sidor
...mellowing year; Bitter constraint, ami sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due j For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sine for Lycidas ? he knew i ' im-elf to sing, ana build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his... | |
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