The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... LYCIDAS OF MILTON , LYCIDAS is dead - dead e're his prime Young LYCIDAS , and hath not left his peer ; Who would not fing for LYCIDAS ? he knew Himself to fing , and build the lofty rhyme ; He must not float upon his wat ry bier ...
... LYCIDAS OF MILTON , LYCIDAS is dead - dead e're his prime Young LYCIDAS , and hath not left his peer ; Who would not fing for LYCIDAS ? he knew Himself to fing , and build the lofty rhyme ; He must not float upon his wat ry bier ...
Page 232
In the edition of Milton's fmaller poems , Lycidas is entitled a monody , and the following melancholy cause is faid to have given rife to the compofition . A learned friend was unfortunately drowned , 1637 , in the month of Auguft , on ...
In the edition of Milton's fmaller poems , Lycidas is entitled a monody , and the following melancholy cause is faid to have given rife to the compofition . A learned friend was unfortunately drowned , 1637 , in the month of Auguft , on ...
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... LYCIDAS thy lofs to fhepherd's ear . Having thus fweetly sketched the pleasures and for , rows of friendship , Milton burfts forth into the follow , ing affecting apoftrophe , replete with genuine poetry : Where were ye ; nymphs , when ...
... LYCIDAS thy lofs to fhepherd's ear . Having thus fweetly sketched the pleasures and for , rows of friendship , Milton burfts forth into the follow , ing affecting apoftrophe , replete with genuine poetry : Where were ye ; nymphs , when ...
Page 234
... LYCIDAS , your forrow is not dead ! Sunk tho ' he be beneath the watry floor , So finks the day - ftar in the ocean - bed ; And yet anon uprears his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new fpangled ore , Flames in the ...
... LYCIDAS , your forrow is not dead ! Sunk tho ' he be beneath the watry floor , So finks the day - ftar in the ocean - bed ; And yet anon uprears his drooping head , And tricks his beams , and with new fpangled ore , Flames in the ...
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... LYCIDAS , the shepherds weep no more , Henceforth thou art the genius of the fhore , In thy large recompence , and shalt be good , To all that wander in that perilous food ! How tender is this conclufion ! how expreffive of that fupport ...
... LYCIDAS , the shepherds weep no more , Henceforth thou art the genius of the fhore , In thy large recompence , and shalt be good , To all that wander in that perilous food ! How tender is this conclufion ! how expreffive of that fupport ...
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