 | Thomas Otway - English drama (Tragedy) - 1797 - 456 pages
...like autumn fruit that mellow'd long : Ev'n wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more ; Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 460 pages
...fire, Or water f By assassinates, or poison \ Speak : Or did he languish under some disease ? j£g e. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long : Ev'n wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...fell like autumn-fruit that mellowed long ; Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. VOL. VI. N Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more : Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 724 pages
...faculties nearly to the la>t. I'o him the lines of Dryden, in "CEdipus," may with justice be applied : " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell, like Autumn fruit that mellow'd long, [sooner ! Kv'n wonder'd at, because he drop'd no Fate seeni'd to wind him up for fourscore... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...fell like autumn-fruit that mellow'd long: E/n wonder'd at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more : 'Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last... | |
 | Sophocles - 1821 - 76 pages
...violence will bow The languid limbs of age ! Oed. Disease then crush'd the good old monarch ? Aeg. Of no distemper — of no blast he died ; But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Ev'n wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. Oed. Tis well ! What blinded wretch will... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...this had been force, And force upon free-will hath here no place. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 9. AGE. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder' d at because, he dropt no sooner ; Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore... | |
 | John Sanderson - 1828 - 728 pages
...in the same posture, with the book under his chin, as a man who becomes drowsy and goes to sleep. " Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long ; E'en wonder'il at because he falls no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore... | |
 | James Thacher - Medicine - 1828 - 318 pages
...retaining a good degree of mental vigor and physical activity to within a few days of his death. " Of no distemper, of no blast he died ; But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long : Ev'n wonder'd at, because it falls no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for four score... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...fell like autumn-fruit that mellow'd long : Ev'n wonder'd at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more : Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood... | |
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E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 
