Shatter your leaves 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... The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 95edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...Milton's panegyric on his friend's poetry, v. 9. Who would not fing for LYCIDAS ? He knew Himfelf to fing, and build the lofty rhyme. This poem, as appears by the Trinity manufcript, was written in November, 1637, when Milton was not quite twenty-nine years old. L'ALLEGRCX... | |
| James Beattie - 1809 - 406 pages
...conveyed into Troy: " Equum " divina Palladis arte eedificant." Milton is still bolder when he says, Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.* The phrase, however, though bold, is emphatical, and gives a noble idea of the durability * In the... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
| John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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 rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
| Edward Berwick - 1813 - 584 pages
...excellent studies expired. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF CNEIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS Neget quis carmina Gallo. VIROIV Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. • OF CNEIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS. CORNELIUS GALLUS was born about the year of Rome 687, and though some... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...li % For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, 9 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : / «• Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew '< Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. * Edwavd King, Eiq. the 8on of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland. He was sailing from Chester... | |
| 1822 - 284 pages
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
| Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 pages
...sanctions both human and divine. Note 36, stanza viii. Then lofty anthems build. " Who would not weep for Lycidas > He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme." Milton, Lycidas. Note 37, stanza x. In Paris, compass'd round, and sorely shent. Johnson cites not... | |
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