 | Robert William Browne - 1857 - 490 ページ
...? Nam neque Parnassi vobis juga nam neque Pindi Ulla moram fecere, neque Aonia Aganippe. Eel. x. 9. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed...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. Milton's Lycidas.... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 ページ
...blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless dec-p Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither...the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie; Nor on the shaggy top of Mona1 high, Nor yet where l)evaj spreads her wizard stream : Ay me !... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 ページ
...— Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep SO Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither...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. 55 Ay me ! I... | |
 | 1857 - 536 ページ
...both. Where were ye, nymphs ! when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas 1 For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, he ! Nor on the shagcy top of Mona, high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. — Lycid Having now treated... | |
 | 1857 - 686 ページ
...vain delights, As short 08 arc your nights Wherein you spend your folly," etc. The lines in Lycidas, " Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas Î" seem to have been suggested by an epitaph written by Turbervillo (1570), on the drowning of Arthur... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 182 ページ
...undermining innocence, turning all rebirths into superfoetations. This is the knowledge of the epigraph: "Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep /Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?" Acting out the metaphors of his prose, Lamb by living on the banks of the New doubles the "weakness"... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 ページ
...harsh and crude: Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Clos'd o're the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids ly, Nor on the shaggy top of Mono high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream: Ay me, I fondly... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 ページ
...of the throne of God." This is not the only hill of difficulty in "Lycidas." "Where were ye Nymphs?" "For neither were ye playing on the steep / Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie." There are at least half a dozen conjectures as to what that steep is. Passing from Latin or Greek... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 ページ
...the shaft which flies In darkness? where was lorn Urania When Adonais died? echoes Milton's (50 f.), Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? which is in turn an echo of Virgil's tenth Eclogue. In that same poem mysterious figures come to the... | |
 | Jahan Ramazani - 1994 - 436 ページ
...question akin to the elegiac questions that had often parceled out blame — Milton asking, for example: Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?18 Like Milton and other male elegists, Hardy places responsibility on a female figure, yet... | |
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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... 
