 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
 | Hugh Miller - 1829 - 292 sidor
...of the dead, And lovely the changes of life. ELEGY WRITTEN AT SEAHe must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear.. Milton. Tis night ; around our bark the gloomy waveAll lonely heaves, nor shore nor skiff is nigh j... | |
 | Aristophanes, John Wood Warter - 1830 - 268 sidor
...AvSi&v to the " Lydians ;" Vrivifav to the " Gnats;" BtMTroiiivos f3aTp«x«0'£ to the " Frogs." * " Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme."— v. 10. Eur. Suppl. v. 997, Hor. Epist. i. iii. 24, A P. 436. 5 Like Scott's Minstrel, " His wither'd... | |
 | Duke John Yonge - 1830 - 182 sidor
...and lawn ; By my troth and ye ring not his death-knell to day ON THE DEATH OF AN UNFORTUNATE FRIEND. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. MILTON. His saltern accumulem clonis et fungar Inani Munere.— VIRO. I had a friend — ah ! poor... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 sidor
...mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier 2 myrtles brown]... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1834 - 328 sidor
...who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark.'" MERCHANT OF VENICE. " Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas,...parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear/* MILTON. THE flood rapidly subsided, but left behind many tokens of the extent of its ravages : amongst... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 sidor
...constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lyejdasis dead, dcjul -Pta ^ Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme He must not jloat upon his watry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 sidor
...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. 8 myrtles brown] Hor. Od. i. 25. 17. ' Pidla magis atque myrto.' Warton. 8 dead] ' Phillisides is dead.'... | |
 | 1850 - 772 sidor
...it will not be denied us to utter the expression of our sorrow over his early grave — For Lvcidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. The poems which Mr. Cooke left behind him are not the effusions of a mere versifier. He did not write,... | |
 | George Putnam - 1834 - 452 sidor
...temple of our devotions, but now thrown down and marred by death ! " Thou shalt not float upon thy watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of one melodious tear.' Departed spirit, that even here wast clothed with light and power from on high... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1835 - 148 sidor
...the former dialogue ; and partly because its eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth stanzas appear * For Lycidas is dead; dead ere his prime; Young Lycidas...not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? — Milton. The author's lamented friend died at twenty-one. The author's own age, when he wrote... | |
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