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
| John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...leaves before the mellowing year. • $ Bitter conftraint, and fad occafion dear, Compels me to diflurb your feafon due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his...? he knew 10 Himfelf to fing, and build the lofty rhime. text, one of the moft uncommon of thefe words, occurs in PARADISH LOST, BX 1071. • With matter... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 492 pages
...rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter conftraint and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due : For Lycidas is dead,...his peer : Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew I ! > nili -1 f to fing, and build the lofty rhyme j He muft not flote upon his watry bier Unwept,... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...rude,. Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter conftraint and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due : For Lycidas is dead, dead e're his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not kft his peer ; Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew Himfelf to, fing, and build the lofty rhyme... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad oecasion dear, Compels me to diturb your season due i For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer i Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter conftraint, and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due: For Lycidas is dead,...would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himfelf to fmg, and build the lofty rhyme. He muft not flote upon his watry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching... | |
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...the laurel, the myrtle and the ivy ; which laft is charafterifed before as ntwr fere. Compels Compels me to difturb your feafon due : . . ,For Lycidas is...would not fing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himfelf to fmg, and build the lofty rhime. II. — To Jing, and build the lofty rhyme.'] Euripides fays ftill... | |
| James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 272 pages
...leaves before the mellowing year » Bitter conftraint, and fad occafion dear, Compels me to dijlurb your feafon due ; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his...his peer : Who would not fing for Lycidas ? he knew Himfelf to fing, and build the 'lofty rhime. He muft not ftoat upon his'wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...Shatter your leaves before the mello« ing year; Bitter conftiaint, and fad occafion dear, Compel» me to difturb your feafon due ; For Lycidas is dead,...Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not ling for Lycidas ? he knew Himfclf to fing, and build thelnfty rhimc. He muft not Boat upon his wjt'ry... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...before the mellowing year. J Bitter conflraint, and fad occalion dear, Compels me to diflurb your fealon due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young...and hath not left his peer : Who would not fing for Lycidu* ? he knew 10 Himfelf to fing, and build the lofty rhyme. He mud not flote upon Ms watiy bier... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...laudandum ! For the death of such a man our eyes are still wet with tears, our hearts still big with sighs. Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas, and hath not left hii peer. But why tears, why sighs, for one who lived in purity, and died in peace ; who, from a world... | |
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