 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1824 - 378 pages
...crowns upon a single dinner. Mully Hamet, king of Fez and Morocco, gave So may'st thou live, 'tin, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd ; in death mature." So also, in describing to him the various modes by which roan would injure health,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...the sin of Eve. How 531. The rule of nol loo much,] different is this image from God's Ne quid nimis. 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 Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...the sin of EEc. How 531. The rule of not too much,] different is this image from God's Ne quid mmis. 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 Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change... | |
 | William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - English poetry - 1824 - 102 pages
...thy carrion ; pity winds thy corse, While horror waits on princes. Vittoria Coromb. Act. 5. MILTON. till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature. PL xi. 535. 8 IV. MORS FATALIS. fe AL VE, quae placidi... | |
 | John Brewster - 1825 - 202 pages
...seeking from thence " Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight ; " Till many years over thy head return. " So may'st thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, thou...Gather'd, not harshly pluck''d, for death mature. " This is OLD AGE." CHAPTER V. Of the singular Continence and Chastity of the primitive Christians,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...seeking from thence 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 MI; Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature, sa? This is old age ; but then thou must outlive... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : f Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Sliakspeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood- Gather 'd, not harshly pluck 'd ; for death mature: This is Old Age ; but then, thou must outlive Thy... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 264 pages
...seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with ease 536 Gathered, not harshly plucked ; for death mature : 537 This is Old Age ; but then, thou must outlive... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - Institutional missions - 1829 - 292 pages
...saw one of 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...ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for Death mature. This if old age: but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, 'Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop,...lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd; in death mature. Millan. DXII. The humour of turning every misfortune into a judgment, proceeds from... | |
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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... 
