 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 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 rhime. He must not float upon his watery... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere liis 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 rhyme. He must not float upon his... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...with all that were on board, August 10, 163?. Mr. King was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, 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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 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... | |
 | George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...own,) that event, which, more than any other of a like nature, plunged the whole nation into grief. ' Lycidas is dead ! dead ere his prime. Young Lycidas ! and hath not left bis peer. Who would not ting for Lycidat I He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.' And... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
