 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 peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.  The english anthology. - Page 451793Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - English fiction - 1834 - 328 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | 1850 - 772 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas is dead, — dead ere his prime...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... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1835 - 148 pages
...in the former dialogue ; and partly because its eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth stanzas appear * For Lycidas is dead; dead ere his prime; Young Lycidas ! and hath 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,... | |
 | John Jebb (bp. of Limerick.) - 1837 - 486 pages
...before 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 peer. MILTON. I was yesterday employed, in turning over the various heap of papers, which compose my Registry.... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...before the 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, and hath not left 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...before the 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, and hath not left 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... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...before 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 peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme ; He must not float upon his watery... | |
 | Benjamin Davis Winslow - Episcopal Church - 1841 - 410 pages
...before 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 peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ! he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. * * * * * we were nurst upon... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season , Behemoth* rears his head. Glanc'd from his side, The darted Bleel sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 10 He must not float upon his... | |
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