| Samuel Johnson - 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... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...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 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery... | |
| John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is d«.ad, dead 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... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...the mellowing year; Bitter constraint, ami sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due j For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sine for Lycidas ? he knew i ' im-elf to sing, ana build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season dtte : A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems" could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery... | |
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