 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
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 568 sidor
...strain Over his wat'ry hearse.] Beautifully imitated by Milton : " Ho must not float upon his wat'ry bier " Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, " Without the meed of some melodious tear." ECHO [accompanied.'] Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears ; Yet slower, yet ; O faintly,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 sidor
...occasion dear, f Compels me t,o disturb your season due : li % For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, 9 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : / «•...knew '< Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. * Edwavd King, Eiq. the 8on of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland. He was sailing from Chester... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sidor
...mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season dtte : For ro perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems" could...here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1820 - 136 sidor
...thou, CREATOR GOD ! art all in all 1 NOTES. NOTE 1.— P. 1. The meed of some melodious tear. He shall not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. .Milton's Lycidas. NOTE 2.— P. 1. Bid th' angel homeward look. Look homeward angel now, and melt... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 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...the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove d_oth spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string: Hertge wifh denial vain, and coy excuse... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 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,...the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and somewhat londly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse ; So may some gentle Muse With lucky... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sidor
...mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and snd occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For hired a chariot so trim and so tight, [pass : That extre rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 sidor
...dear comtraint, Let me not sleep, but waste the weary night 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 wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, 1O. Who would... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 sidor
...seems to have given the genuine reading, " N«r Joxgux " pipit rpihx," [v. 1 133.] T. Warton. 1"5. Begin then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring,"} He means Hippocrene, a fountain consecrated to the Muses on mount Helicon, on the side of which was... | |
 | 1824 - 456 sidor
...the first epistle of Horace, Sou candis amabile carmen, is made to adorn the beautiful apostrophe—- Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. Castiglioni thus speaks of his friend : Alcon dclicis Musarum et Apollinis, Alcon Pars anima-, &c.... | |
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