 | Hugh Miller - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1829 - 292 pages
...rife ; Yea ! bright is the house of the dead, And lovely the changes of life. ELEGY WRITTEN AT SEAHe must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear.. Milton. Tis night ; around our bark the gloomy waveAll lonely... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1829 - 286 pages
...rife ; Yea ! bright is the house of the dead, . And lovely the changes of life. ELEGY WRITTEN AT SEA, He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to die parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear. Milton. Tis night ; around our bark the... | |
 | Aristophanes, John Wood Warter - 1830 - 268 pages
...AvSi&v to the " Lydians ;" Vrivifav to the " Gnats;" BtMTroiiivos f3aTp«x«0'£ to the " Frogs." * " Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme."— v. 10. Eur. Suppl. v. 997, Hor. Epist. i. iii. 24, A P. 436. 5 Like Scott's Minstrel, "... | |
 | Duke John Yonge - 1830 - 182 pages
...and lawn ; By my troth and ye ring not his death-knell to day ON THE DEATH OF AN UNFORTUNATE FRIEND. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. MILTON. His saltern accumulem clonis et fungar Inani Munere.— VIRO. I had a friend — ah... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas...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 watery bier 2 myrtles brown]... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lyejdasis dead, dcjul -Pta ^ Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would...Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme He must not jloat upon his watry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Ward - 1834 - 84 pages
...friend. It had its inception in a mood german to that of the poet over Lycidas : — "Lycidas is dead and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas?" * We know not but that we may venture to say, that there is one individual, at least, to whom we could... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ; For Lycidas...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... | |
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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. 
