 Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well 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 With lucky words favour my destined urn...  The Metropolitan - Page 4431847Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not flote upon his watry bier Unwept, and welter to the 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, and somewhat loudly sweep the... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...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 the meed of some melodious...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 - 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...So may some 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious...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
...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious...So may some 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme* He must not float upon his watVy bier Unwept) and welter to the parching wind, "Without the meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, 15 That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring j Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pages
...of the commentators on Milton have pointed out his allusion to this passage in the Lycidas, v. 15, Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well, That from beneath, the seat, of Jove doth spring. Milton, with whom Euripides was a favourite poet, seems to have read, with Lascaris, x»'m*;, which... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...im-elf to sing, ana build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his wat'ry bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious...Begin then, sisters of the sacred well, That from bieneath the teat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string. Hence with denial... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...fellow of Christ's Cortege, Cambridge. ^He must not float upon his watery bier <• Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious...^~ 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious...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... | |
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