| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...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... | |
| John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...prime ; Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...1637. And by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their highth. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with...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... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...Irish seas, 1637.] YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And,...— 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... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crnde ; And, with forced fingers rnde, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and snd t Matthew thought better ; for Matthew thought right,...a chariot so trim and so tight, [pass : That extre Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere liis prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...: and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with...occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due ; • Edward King, Esq. the son of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland, lie was sailing from... | |
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