 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 may'st thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou...  Le paradis perdu - Sida 414efter John Milton - 1837 - 495 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Milton - 1850 - 302 sidor
...head return : So may'st thou live till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 535 Into thy mother's lap, or bo 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 To wither'd, weak, and grey. Thy senses then 540... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 594 sidor
...being then in the decline of life, and troubled with various infirmities. — THYKR. PARADISE LOST. Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To wither'd, weak, and grey. Thy senses then 540 Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forego, To what thou hast ; and for the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 644 sidor
...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...thou drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked ; for death mature. This is old age." * VOL. iI. 42 FESTIVAL OF THE SONS... | |
 | 1909 - 502 sidor
...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...fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature. This is old age ; but then thou must outlive Thy youth,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sidor
...thy carrion: pity winds thy corse, While horror waits on princes.' VMoria Coromb., Act V. MILTON. ' Till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease CJather'd, not harshly plucked, for death mature.' PL, xi.535. We must, however, before we conclude,... | |
 | Hermione de Almeida - 1990 - 429 sidor
...before he was "for death mature" and to his inability to conceive of ripeness except in ambiguous terms: So may'st thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop...Mother's lap; or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature.4 Cognizant of the finitude of life as a physician and able to rationalize... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 sidor
...Bianthanatos, or the Hemlock Society, however gloomy Michael's depiction of old age and its infirmities: "This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and gray; thy senses then Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgo To what thou hast,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 sidor
...may inherit from her. If Adam will remain temperate from this time forth, he is promised that he may "live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop / Into thy Mother's lap, or be with ease / Gather 'd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature" (11.535-37), and thereby in a measure reverse the... | |
 | Herbert M. Shelton - 1996 - 324 sidor
...and drinkest, seek from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight. So mayest thou live, 'til, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap; or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked; for death mature." —Milton APPLE, Ap-1, n. The fruit of the Pyrus... | |
 | Michael C. Schoenfeldt - 1999 - 224 sidor
...existence culminating in a painful death Adam has just witnessed but rather live a contented life until "like ripe Fruit thou drop / Into thy Mother's lap, or be with ease / Gatherd, not harshly pluckt" (1 1.531 37). The proper conduct of the appetite, Michael suggests, can in part ameliorate... | |
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