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 wizard stream-- Ay me! I fondly dream, Had ye been there; for what could that have done? Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres - Page 160by Hugh Blair - 1811 - 838 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...head of your lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, 51 Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream i 55 Ay me ! I fondly dream Had ye been there, for what could-that have done ? What could... | |
| 1803 - 350 pages
...the head of your lov'd 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 wizard stream.* Having now treated fully of Ossian's talents, with' respect to description and imagery, it only remains... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...the head of your loved Lycidas f For neither were you 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 wizard stream ; Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there, for what could that have done ? The resemblance is such,... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...head of your lov'd Lycidas ? Tor neither were ye playing on the steep V here ; our old bards, the fai famous druids, lie; Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Utva spreads her wizard stream j. Having now treated fully of Ossian's talents with respect to description... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...the head of your lov'd 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 wizard stream.* Having now treated fully of Ossian's talents, with respect to description and imagery, it only remains... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...the head of your lov'd Lycidas I For neither were ye playing on the fteep 'Where your old bards, the famous Druids lie ; Nor on the Shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva fpreads her ivizard ftream. LYCIDAS. The The mention of places remarkably romantic, the fuppofed habitations... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...names. Our muses have seldom been playing on the steep Where our old bards, the famous Druids, lie,f Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream.}; Milton, * Dodsley's Miscellanies, Vol. VI. p. 327. f Supposed to be a place in the... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...the head of your lov'd 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, for what could that have done ? What could... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 458 pages
...lov'd Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie 5 Nor on the shaggy top of Mona, high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. * Having now treated fully of Ossian's talents, with respect to description and imagery, it only remains... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...the head of your lov'd 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 — for what could that have done ? What... | |
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