| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...prophetic strain. Those pleasures, Melancholy, give, And I with thee will choose to live. LYCIDAS. ir church, in last resort, should judge the sense. But first they would ass scar, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...Manuscript appears to have been written in November, \63~, when he was almost twenty-nine years old : once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, and these words in the printed titles of this poem, and by occasion jvretelx the ruin of our corrupted... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Irith teat, 1637 : and by occtuion foreielU the ruin tfour corrupted clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forc'd fingers rude. * This poem... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...OCCASION FORETELS THE RUIN OF OUR CORRUPTED CLERGY, THEN IN THEIR HEIGHT. YET once more, 0 ye laurels,,and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, I...come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Compels me to disturb your season... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...Irish seas, 1637 : 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...to pluck your berries harsh and crude ; And, with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint and sad occasion... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd have. Listen, and save. ***** EXTRACT FROM LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles...to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year : Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...Halo*. Who therefore can invent With what more forcible we may offend Our yet unwouoded enemies ? W. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter our leaven before the mellowing year. Id. He swifter far, Me overtook,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 792 pages
...Slilton. Who therefore can invent . With what more forcible we may offend Our yet unwounded enemies ? Id. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and erode, And vrith forced lingers rude Shatter our leaves before the mellowing year. !•! He swifter... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...Irish seas, 1637 ; 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 fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind, all passion spent. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. LYCIDAS. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles...to pluck your berries harsh and crude; And , with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion... | |
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