...laurels, and once more, And, with forced fingers rude, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year: Bitter...occasion dear. Compels me to disturb your season due! MILTON. LOOK, reader, once more with the eye and heart of sympathy, at a melancholy page in the book...

...1 come to pluck your Iterrits harsh and crude; And, with forced fingers rude. Shatter your leavi-s before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and...occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due ! '** LOOK, reader, once more with the !•)•<• and heart of sympathy, at a melancholy page in...

...227 Blucher; or, the Adventures of a Newfoundland Dog ; .259 THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. Yet mce more, oh ye laurels, and once more. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berriea harsh and crude . ' And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...

...other, as being the genuine effusion of pure friendship, and unaffected piety. JJ Trin. Coll. 1799. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...prime ; Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. MILTON. I was yesterday employed, in turning over the various heap of papers, which compose my Registry....

...berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels...his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhime. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter...

...strong ; thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled!" VOL. III. CHAPTER IV. THE MERCHANT'S CLERK. " Yet once more O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh aud crude^; And, with forced finders rudp, Shatter your leayes before tlie mellowing year Bitter constraint...

...finders rude, Shatter your leaves before tlte mellowing year Bitter constraint nnd sad occasion de:ir, Compels me to disturb your season due ! For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime — Young Lycidas!"* LOOK, reader, once more with the eye and heart of .sympathy, at a melancholy page in the book of human...

...Irish seas, KvJ7 ; and by occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion...

...MilUm. Who therefore can invent With what more forcible we may offend Our yet un wounded enemies? id, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with/or««1 fingers rude Shatter our leave» before the mellowing year. ¡Л. He swifter far, Me overtook,...

...poets. Milton employs this colour in the beginning of his monody of Lycidas thus plaintively :— " Vet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before (lie mellowing year : For Lycidas is dead." And in the following, from an unknown hand, brown is thus...