| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas 1 For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Dova spreads her wizard stream. Ah me ! I fondly dream ! MILTON. His gory visage down the stream was... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...your lor'd Lycidaat For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druide, ? : An me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done t What could the muse... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...ear, Where were ye, Nymphs.when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? » For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...Had ye been there — for what could that have done i What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...reclusa. Montibus insidunt patriis, tristique corona Infecere diem, et vinci sua crimina gaudent." " For neither were ye playing on the steep, where your old bards, the famous Druids lie." Lycidas. V. 48. See the Norwegian ode (the Fatal Sisters) that follows. Gray. Give ample room, and... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? 5I nd, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation...the spring of motion, acts the seal; Reason's comp : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me ! I fondly dream, — Had ye been there : for what could that have done ? What could the Muse... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where...I fondly dream, Had ye been there : for what could thathave done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...gone. 50 Where] Spenser's Astrophel, St. 22, Ah, where were ye the while his shepheard peares, &c. Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor...shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? What could... | |
| Robert William Browne - Latin literature - 1853 - 530 pages
...x. 9. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Milton' s Lycidai CHAPTER IV. BEAUTY OF DIDACTIC POETRY — ELABORATE FINISH OF THE OEORGICS — ROMAN... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, MILTON. ,187 Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor...her wizard stream : Ah me, I fondly dream ! Had ye heen there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse... | |
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