 Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream-- Ay me! I fondly dream, Had ye been there; for what could that have done?  Milton. Comus, Lycidas, L'allegro, Il penseroso, and selected sonnets, with ... - Page 32by John Milton - 1871Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, 51 Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor...shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream i 55 Ay me ! I fondly dream Had ye been there, for what could-that have done ? What could... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...famous Druids, lie, Nor on the fliaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva fpreads her wifard ftream : 55 Ay me ! I fondly dream Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? What could the Mufe herfelf that Orpheus bore, The Mufe herfelf for her inchanting fon, Whom univerfal nature did... | |
 | John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...of the Ihepherd Daphnis. Thefe rivers and rocks have a real connection with the poet's fubjeft. 56. Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — -for what could that have done ?~\ So thefe lines ftand in editipns 16^8, 1645, and 1673, the two laft of which were printed under... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...fhaggy top of Moiia high, Nor yet where Deva ff reads her wifard flream : J5 Ay me ! I fondly dieara Had ye been there, for what could that have done? What could the Mufe herfelf that Orpheus bore, The Mufe herfelf for her iiichaiiting foil, Whom univerfal nature did... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...both. 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...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream.* Having now treated fully of Ossian's talents, with' respect to description and imagery, it only remains... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas f For neither were you playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream ; Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? The resemblance is such,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...head of your lov'd Lycidas ? Tor neither were ye playing on the steep V here ; our old bards, the fai famous druids, lie; Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Utva spreads her wizard stream j. Having now treated fully of Ossian's talents with respect to description... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...both. 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...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream.* Having now treated fully of Ossian's talents, with respect to description and imagery, it only remains... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...remorfelefs deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas I For neither were ye playing on the fteep 'Where your old bards, the famous Druids lie ; Nor...on the Shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva fpreads her ivizard ftream. LYCIDAS. The The mention of places remarkably romantic, the fuppofed habitations... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...names. Our muses have seldom been playing on the steep Where our old bards, the famous Druids, lie,f Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream.}; Milton, * Dodsley's Miscellanies, Vol. VI. p. 327. f Supposed to be a place in the... | |
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