 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1801 - 436 pages
...eat'ft and drink'ft, feekingfrom thence Due nourifhment, not gluttonous delight,. Till many years ovef thy head return : So may'ft thou live, 'till, like...fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with eafe Gather'.!, not harflily pluck'd ; in death mature. So alfo, in deferibing to him the various modes... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...from thenc* Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature : This is old age ; but then thou must outlive... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 794 pages
...violence ; in oppofition to gentlenefe, unltfs in the following paiTage it rather lignifies unripely __ 'Till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with eale Gather'd, not harfhly pluck'd. Milton. }. Severely; morolt-ly ; crabbedly. — I would rather... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 pages
...thence .-: Due nourifbment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So may'fl thou live; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with eafe 536 Ver. 524. jince they God's image did not reverence in them/elves-] From Rum. i. 21, 24. "... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...from tbeoce Due nourishment , not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So may'st thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd ; for death mature: This is Old Age ; but then, thou must outlive... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many yemrs over thy b«ad return : So may'st thou live,till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature: This is old age; bntthen tbou most outlive Thy... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 706 pages
...my aged friends, to whom might be applied Milton's description of honourable old age. " So may "st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop " Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease " Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for Death mature. " 'I'lni it old age : but then thou most outlire... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 982 pages
...my aged friends, to whom might be applied Milton's description of honourable old age. So may'st thwi live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluckM, for Death mature. This is old age : but then then must outlive Thy... | |
 | Religion - 1811 - 708 pages
...friends, to whom might be applied Milton's description of honourable old age, " So may'tt thou lire, till like ripe fruit thou drop " Into thy mother's lap, or be with caw " Gatlier'd, not harshly pluck'd, for Death mature. " Thii if old age : but then thou must outlive... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1813 - 278 pages
...my aged friends, to whom might be applied Milton's description of honourable old age. , " So may's! thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop " Into thy mother's lap, or he with ease ; " Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for Death mature. " Thii is old age: but then thou... | |
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There is, said Michael, if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till... 
