 | Walter Pater - Christianity and other religions - 1885 - 248 pages
...committed him. CHAPTEE XII. THE DIVINITY THAT DOTH HEDGE A KING. But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in el aye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the...wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to playe. MARCUS AUKELIUS who, though he had little relish for them himself, had been ever willing to humour... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 250 pages
...did sing of warres and deadly drede, So as the Heavens did quake his verse to here. But ah l Mecaenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play : For ever, who in derring-doe were dreade, The loftie... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1895 - 306 pages
...warres and deadly drede, So as the Heavens did quake his verse to here. 60 Bftt ah ! Mecsenas is y clad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies l^ggeS wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play : For ever, who in derriug-doe were dreade,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1897 - 808 pages
...and deadly drede. So as the Heavens did quake his verse to here. But ah ! Mecrenas is yclad in clave. nd safe.it were my aillie shecpe, Ne fear'd the Wolfe, nefear'd the wildes leade, That matter made for Poets on to play : For ever, who in derring-doe were dreade, The loftie... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 596 pages
...out of their dark roofs and corners. — Marius, the Epicurean. But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in clave. And great Augustus long ygoe is dead. And all the...wrapt in lead. That matter made for poets on to playe. Marcus Aurelius who, though he had little relish for them himself, had been ever willing to humor the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Clout, Colin (Fictitious character) - 1898 - 148 pages
...did quake his verse to hear. t But ah ! Mecaenas is yclad in clay, 'TM And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to play: For ever, who in derring-do were dread, The lofty verse of them was loved aye. But after Virtue... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 660 pages
...lights in a cave, out of their dark roofs and corners. A DISCOURSE OF MARCUS AUKELIUS. But ah ! Msecenaa is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is...wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to playe. MARCUS AURELIUS who, though he had little relish for them himself, had been ever willing to humor the... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...unmislilafcfc echo of Spenser. For in the ShtphtrtTs Caltitdar Cuddy lament« : And great Augustus long agoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead That matter made for poets on to play. Thomas Campion (0.1575-1620), physician, musician, and poet, was born at Witham, in Esses, studied... | |
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Mecoenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play: For ever who in derring doe were dreade, The loftie verse of hem was loved aye. 
