| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...ere his prime— jung Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Tio would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must...parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear. For we were nurs'd upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill. Together... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...mellowing year : lütter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, , Young Lycidas,...not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas Î He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept,... | |
| Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...the 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 hath not left his Who would not sing for Lycx&asl PT. n. 88 LYCIDAS. Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. He must... | |
| David Lester RICHARDSON - Autographs - 1848 - 580 pages
...agreeable. Indeed the lines are altogether very school-boyish. Compare them with some lines of Milton. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Here the alliterations are not unpleasing. Or, take another specimen— Fountains, and ye that warble,... | |
| 1848 - 544 pages
...the Tales, " The Onyx Ring," from Blackwood, long since well known in this country, is the best. " For Lycidas is dead, — dead ere his prime, Young...Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sin» for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. — How well could I have spared... | |
| 1848 - 544 pages
...Of the Tales, "The Onyx Ring," from Blackwood, long since well known in this country, is the best " For Lycidas is dead, — dead ere his prime, Young...Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sin;* for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. — How well could I hare spared... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and snd 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 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watry bier Unwept, and welter... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...the 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,...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... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 570 pages
...a peculiar propriety to several [lansagr.s in H. FORMS. 18. Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peel : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must... | |
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