 | Edward Berwick - 1813 - 584 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme* He must not float upon his watVy bier Unwept) and welter to the parching wind, "Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 568 pages
...strain Over his wat'ry hearse.] Beautifully imitated by Milton : " Ho must not float upon his wat'ry bier " Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, " Without the meed of some melodious tear." ECHO [accompanied.'] Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears ; Yet slower, yet ; O faintly,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Lycidas ? he knew i ' im-elf to sing, ana build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, sisters of the sacred well, That from bieneath the teat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and... | |
 | 1816 - 762 pages
...F. Queen. Thanks to men Of noble minds is honourable meed. Shak. He muft not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of fome melodious tear. Milton. If fo, a cloak and vcfturete my meed, Till his return no title (hall "lead.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 748 pages
...F. Qtteen. Thanks to men Of noble minds is honourable meed. Shak. He muft not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of fome melodious tear* Milton. If fo, a cloak and vcfl ure by my meed, Till hi* return no title fhall... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...your season due : 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to...ruis'd to shed his blood. O.'i blindness to the fut Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1820 - 136 pages
...thou, CREATOR GOD ! art all in all 1 NOTES. NOTE 1.— P. 1. The meed of some melodious tear. He shall not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. .Milton's Lycidas. NOTE 2.— P. 1. Bid th' angel homeward look. Look homeward angel now, and melt... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, and... | |
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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 : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme ;... 
