 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the Saered Well, 1 5 That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin,...coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd urn, 20 And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud t For we were nurst upon the self-same... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...for Lycidas ? be knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rbime. He must not flote upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without...coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fait peace be to my sable shroud For we were... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear. •VOL. IV. N Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from...gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd urn; And, as he passes, turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nurs'd upon the self-same... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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, and welter...from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring ; Begin, arid somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : So may some gentle... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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 bier Unwept, and welter...gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destin'd urn, And as he passes turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nurst upon the self -same... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, sisters of the sacred well, That from bieneath the teat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep...coy excuse, So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favor my destin'd urn ; And, as she passes, turn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...all that were on hnf.nl, August 10, 1637. Mr. Kin;, wai a fellow of Christ's Cortege, Cambridge. ^He must not float upon his watery bier <• Unwept, and...^~ That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring f> .Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. ^ Hence with denial vain, and coy excuse : i . So... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He d to the la>t, he crops the flowery food, And licks...great teacher, Death ; and God adore. Wliat future um ; 2O And, as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud. For we were nurs'd upon the... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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, and welter...spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. 1 Edward King, Esq. the son of Sir John King, knight, secretary for Ireland. He was sailing from Chester... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...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, and welter...the sacred well, That from beneath the seat of Jove d_oth spring ; Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string: Hertge wifh denial vain, and coy excuse... | |
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That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial vain and coy excuse : So may some gentle Muse... 
