| Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycida* ? For neither were ye playing on the ateep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Dewt spreads her wizard stream. Among these wild scenes, ' Deva's wizard stream' is admirably imaged... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...shepherds' ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Hos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ah me, 1 fondly dream 1 Had ye been there — for what could that have done i What... | |
| Virgil - Pastoral poetry, English - 1820 - 456 pages
...country ; Where were ye nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Pope also has imitated this beautiful passage, in his second pastoral ; Where stray, ye Muses, in what... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? 51 ken all the place ! Fear not ; like me, with freedom...meat. How bless'd, how cnvy'd, were our life, Could Dcva spreads her wizard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...ear. Where were ye, Nymphs ! when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...wizard stream. Ah me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herelf,... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...ear. Where were ye, Nymphs! when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ah me 3 I fondly dream ! Had ye been there.—for what could that have d6ne? What could the Muse herself... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...pieces. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. LYCIDAS. The mention of places remarkably romantic, the supposed habitations of Druids, Bards, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...pieces. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. LYCIDAS. The mention of places remarkably romantic, the supposed habitations of Druids, Bards, and... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...loved Lycidas ? For neither weYc ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, He, 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 — for what could that have done f • \Vhiit could*... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...ear. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...high, Nor yet where Deva" spreads her wizard stream : Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse... | |
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