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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... "
The Vision : Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri - Page 256
by Dante Alighieri - 1831
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The Vision, Or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

Dante Alighieri - Hell - 1847 - 630 pages
...videtur. Cicero de Officiis, lib. ic 13. 4 To lower sails.] Our Poet had the same train of thought as when he wrote that most beautiful passage in his...not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. Milton, PL b. ». 537And to repentance and confession turn'd, Wretch that I was ; and well it had bested me. The...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...thou eat'st and drinkest.seek from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight ; So thou may'st live till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Galher'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. MILTON. 6. For swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heaven...
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English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises ...

George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...Vol. thy stout heart, That humble, as the ripest mulberry Now will not hold the handling. Id., iii. 2. 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. Yet years, and to ripe years judgement...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ...

John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 535 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 [change Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty ; which...
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English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises ...

George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1848 - 426 pages
...thy stout heart, That humble, as the ripest mulberry Now will not hold the handling. Id., iii. 2. - till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be w ith case Gathered, not harshly plucked ; for death mature : PL, xi. 535. Yet years, and to ripe years...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 5

Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, 'T ill many years over thy head return : So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop,...lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd ; in death matureMilton. O madness, to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 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 536 Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature: This is old age ; but then thou must outlive Thy...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts

John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 535 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 [change Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty ; *which...
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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...seeking from Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight; [thence Till many years over thy head return; So may'st thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop...ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd; for death mature, This is old age; but then thou must outlive [change Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will...
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The Vision; Or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - 1850 - 656 pages
...from i 1.4 branch, so our soul without grieving, departs from the body in which It hath been." Somaysl thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy...Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. Milton. P. Л., b. xi. 537. 8 Tkf ckirf of thr new Pharisee*.] Boniface VIII-, whose enmity lo tbn family of...
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