 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 страници
...sing of warres and deadly drede, So as the Heavens did quake his verse to here. 60 But ah Meccenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead : And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play: For ever, who in derring doe were dreade, The loftie... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1925 - 298 страници
...sing of warres and deadly drede, So as the Heavens did quake his verse to here. 60 But ah ! Mecsenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter madefosPoets oii.to.play : For ever, who m oerring-abewereafeade, The loftie verse... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1925 - 158 страници
...heavens did quake his verse to hear. " But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in clay And great Augustus long ygo is dead And all the Worthies liggen wrapt in lead That matter made for poets on to play : For ever who in derring-do were dread The lofty verse of them was loved aye." Yet Spenser had... | |
 | John Watkins - 1995 - 230 страници
...sing of warres and deadly drede, So as the Heauens did quake his verse to here. 67 But ah Mecoenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead: And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play. (55-64) Cuddie demystifies Piers's idealistic conception... | |
 | Niall Rudd - 2005 - 232 страници
...poore Muse hath spent her spared store, Yet little good hath got, and much less gayne. But ah Mecoenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead : And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play. Sad, gentle, nostalgic and hopeless, Cuddie reminds us... | |
 | Walter Pater - 2005 - 393 страници
...him, CHAPTER XII •THE DIVINITY THAT DOTH HEDGE A KING And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, Arid all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to playe. But ah! Maecenas is yelad in elaye, MABCUS AUBEMUS who, though he had Httle relish for them himself,... | |
 | 1882 - 544 страници
...lead in the following passage, in his Shepheard's Calendar, published in 1579: — " But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is...were dread, The loftie verse of hem was loved aye." Ле\. xv 61, ff. JOHN PICKFOKD, MA Xewbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. HALKETT AND LAINO'S "DICTIONARY... | |
 | 1909 - 790 страници
...Calendar may prove explanatory of this custom : — But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in clayi'. And groat Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen...derring-doe were dread, The loftie verse of hem was loved ayo. JEglogue, x. 61 ff. This custom of wrapping the bodies in lead was not unusual in the sixteenth... | |
 | 1887 - 754 страници
...more of an archaism than a provincialism, and is ussd by Edmund Spenser : — But ah ! Msecenaa ia yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead,...worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made for poeta on to playe; For ever who in derring-doe were dread, The lofty verae of hem was loved aye. '... | |
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Mecoenas is yclad in claye, And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in leade, That matter made for Poets on to play: For ever who in derring doe were dreade, The loftie verse of hem was loved aye. 
