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" 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 bier Unwept,... "
Bulletin - Page 58
1904
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...seems to have given the genuine reading, " N«r Joxgux " pipit rpihx," [v. 1 133.] T. Warton. 1"5. Begin then, sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring,"} He means Hippocrene, a fountain consecrated to the Muses on mount Helicon, on the side of which was...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...&c.] Thus in our author's Epitaphium Damonis, v. 28. Indeplorato non comminuere sepulchro. T. Warton. Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, sisters of the sacred well, 15 That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parehing th, With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dispers'd. Dig for the wither' Saered Well, That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string....
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 2

Horace Smith - 1825 - 356 pages
...Shipwreck," and perished in some unknown wil.derness of the waters; Lycidas, whom Milton would not allow to welter to the parching wind, " without the meed of some melodious tear;" and other less illustrious sons of song. Peace to your manes; ye who have passed away before us into...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...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...spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd...
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A Sequel to the Diversions of Purley: Containing an Essay on English Verbs ...

John Barclay (of Calcots.) - 1826 - 184 pages
...down upon a couch, or go to bed and WELTER in an easy chair. — Chesterfield. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and WELTER to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Milton. Listening with pleasing dread to the deep roar Of the wide WELTERING waves. Then goes the broken-hearted...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British ..., Volume 4

New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...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...spring; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...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...spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd...
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The Western Monthly Review, Volume 1

Timothy Flint - 1828 - 828 pages
...slumbers in the wave! Oh, I will love the sea, because it is his grave.' ' Thou shall not float upon thy watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of one melodious tea^; ' The spirit of the sermon is a discriminating eulogy of the late president. It...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 14

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pages
...steward ; no meed but he repays Seven-fold above itself. Id. Tañan of Atheni. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. ffiltm. A long and prosperous enjoyment in the land of Canaan was the meed set before them, if they...
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