 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...reclusa. Montibus insidunt patriis, tristique corona Infecere diem, et vinci sua crimina gaudent." " For neither were ye playing on the steep, where your old bards, the famous Druids lie." Lycidas. V. 48. See the Norwegian ode (the Fatal Sisters) that follows. Gray. Give ample room, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...were a scholar *h»re. Do you know anything about the unfortunate relic « AMICUS REDIVIVUS. Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas ? I DO not know when I have experienced a stranger sensation, than on seeing my old friend GD, who... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...gone. 50 Where] Spenser's Astrophel, St. 22, Ah, where were ye the while his shepheard peares, &c. Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor...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... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 182 pages
...innocence, turning all rebirths into superfoetations. This is the knowledge of the epigraph: "Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep /Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?" Acting out the metaphors of his prose, Lamb by living on the banks of the New doubles the "weakness"... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...harsh and crude: Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Clos'd o're the head of your 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 Mono high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream: Ay me, I fondly... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 326 pages
...The Chiselden Hills are in Wiltshire, as is Avebury. 79 Mona is the Isle of Anglesea. Cf. Lycidas: 'the steep / Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, / Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high" (52-4). Merritt Y. Hughes (lain.) cites Camden's Chorographical Description of Britain on Mona's once... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...of the throne of God." This is not the only hill of difficulty in "Lycidas." "Where were ye Nymphs?" "For neither were ye playing on the steep / Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie." There are at least half a dozen conjectures as to what that steep is. Passing from Latin or Greek to... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - Europe - 1992 - 526 pages
...shaft which flies In darkness? where was lorn Urania When Adonais died? echoes Milton's (50 f.), Where were ye Nymphs when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? which is in turn an echo of Virgil's tenth Eclogue. In that same poem mysterious figures come to the... | |
 | Jahan Ramazani - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 436 pages
...akin to the elegiac questions that had often parceled out blame — Milton asking, for example: Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?18 Like Milton and other male elegists, Hardy places responsibility on a female figure, yet... | |
 | Melissa Fran Zeiger - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 228 pages
...figures culminating in the death of Orpheus: Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Clos'd o'er the head of your loved Lycidas? For neither were...Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where De va spreads her wizard stream: Ay me! I fondly dream — Had ye been there — for what could that... | |
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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... 
