 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds ear. [deep Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless Closed o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were...shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream. Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1812 - 282 pages
...copied from Theocritus, and Milton has very happily imitated from both. Where were ye, nymphs! wben the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov*d Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on Ihe sleep Where your old bards, Ihe famous Druids, lie ; Nor on the shaggy top of Mona, high, Nor yet... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...thtir gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of j our lov'd Lycidas ? sj For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...the fancy. We may remark this effect of anepithet in the following fine lines of Milton's Lycidas; Where were ye, Nymphs, when the 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Hos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither...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... | |
 | John Chambers - Malvern (England) - 1817 - 322 pages
...volumes, one of which is open, with the beautiful words from Milton's Lycidas, inscribed on a leaf:-— " Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas." This sculpture is the expression of an idea full of tender sentiment, as is also that of the lock of... | |
 | John Chambers - Malvern (England) - 1817 - 318 pages
...which is open,, with the beautiful words from Milton's Lycidas,. inscribed on a leaf :— " U here were ye. nymphs, when the remorseless deep • Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas." This sculpture is the expression, of an idea full of tender sentiment, as is also that of the lock... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...\Vhere were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'cl o'er the head of your lov-'il l.ycidus Î For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Dnuils, lie, Nor on theshapgy top оГ Mona high, Nor yet where Ueva spreads her wizard stream. Among... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...their guy wardrobe wear, When first the white-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds* ear. mother cries, This Itill delicious fare supplies; Behold the busy negro race, See millions 51 For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie. Nor on the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1821 - 386 pages
...Lycidas de Milton : Where were ye , Nymphs , when the remorseless deep Clos'd over the head of our lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards , the famou's druide , lie , Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high , Nor yet .whcre Deva spreads her wizard... | |
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Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there... 
