 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 ページ
...time. I will not say how far these performances justify Milton's panegyric on his friend's poetry. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. This poem, as appears by the Trinity manuscript, was written in November, 1637, when Milton was not... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 ページ
...conveyed into Troy: " Equum " divina Palladis arte eedificant." Milton is still bolder when he says, Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.* The phrase, however, though bold, is emphatical, and gives a noble idea of the durability * In the... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 ページ
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 ページ
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 ページ
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 ページ
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the... | |
 | Edward Berwick - 1813 - 584 ページ
...excellent studies expired. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF CNEIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS Neget quis carmina Gallo. VIROIV Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. • OF CNEIUS CORNELIUS GALLUS. CORNELIUS GALLUS was born about the year of Rome 687, and though some... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 ページ
...li % For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, 9 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : / «• Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew '< Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. * Edwavd King, Eiq. the 8on of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland. He was sailing from Chester... | |
 | 1822 - 284 ページ
...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 bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 ページ
...sanctions both human and divine. Note 36, stanza viii. Then lofty anthems build. " Who would not weep for Lycidas > He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme." Milton, Lycidas. Note 37, stanza x. In Paris, compass'd round, and sorely shent. Johnson cites not... | |
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Shatter your leaves 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... 
