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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 wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there... "
Sabrinae corolla, in hortulis regiae scholae Salopiensis contexuerunt tres ... - Page 294
by Severn river - 1867 - 401 pages
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The Miltonic Moment

J. Martin Evans - History - 1998 - 204 pages
...lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, ly, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads his wisard stream. [50-55] And both poems conclude with the image of a shepherd rising to his feet...
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Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton

Susan Snyder - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...back. Related in terms of finality, if not speed, is the swain's vision of the actual moment of death, "when the remorseless deep / Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas" (50-51, my emphasis). The waters called up by pastoral nostalgia are different: fountain, rill, and...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - Adonis (Greek deity) - 1999 - 474 pages
...King/ Lycidas becomes a type of the poet and his potential fate in a world hostile to poetry. 50 Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed...famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, 55 Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream.0 Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there - for what...
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The Cambridge Companion to Milton

Dennis Danielson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 320 pages
...though Milton substitutes British for Arcadian landmarks in his adaptation of Virgil's lines: Where were ye nymphs when the remorseless deep Closed o'er...neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old hards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - Fiction - 1999 - 476 pages
...King/ Lycidas becomes a type of the poet and his potential fate in a world hostile to poetry, 50 Where were ye. nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed...neither were ye playing on the steep. Where your old hards, the famous Druids, lie. Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, 55 Nor yet where Deva spreads her...
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Milton's Poetry of Independence: Five Studies

George H. McLoone - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 172 pages
...resentment: Where were ye nymphs when the remorseless deep Clos'd o're the head of your lov'd Lycidasl For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your...Bards, the famous Druids lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mono high, Nor yet where Deva spreds her wisard stream: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye bin there—for...
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James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary

Richard Terry - Literary Collections - 2000 - 294 pages
...(Mona), the legendary home of the Druids, for Milton to build an allusion to them into his lament: Where were ye nymphs when the remorseless deep Closed o'er...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream ... 13 The following year, in his Latin poem to Manso, Milton trumpeted England's credentials to be...
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Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660-1781

Richard G. Terry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 378 pages
...Druids, for Milton to build an allusion to them into his lament: 7' See Kendrick, The Druids, 81-3. Where were ye nymphs when the remorseless deep Closed o'er...shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads here wizard stream... 7) The following year, in his Latin poem to Manso, Milton trumpeted England's...
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November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg

Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...to Shepherd's ear. Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Clod'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep,...your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shagy top of Mono high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye...
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The Complete Critical Guide to John Milton

Richard Bradford - Electronic books - 2001 - 236 pages
...that King's poetic and intellectual promise were of no practical benefit at his untimely death. Where were ye nymphs when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas^ (TP: 50-1) The twenty-line passage following the reflection on King's departure (64-84) is a disquisition...
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