 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 like ripe fruit thou drop...  Life of Daniel Webster - Sida 349efter George Ticknor Curtis - 1870Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 sidor
...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 - 1810 - 560 sidor
...seeking 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 Thy... | |
 | 1810 - 482 sidor
...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 youth,... | |
 | 1811 - 706 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1811 - 982 sidor
...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 youth,... | |
 | 1811 - 708 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 766 sidor
...ripe for fraking. Sbak. — Their fruit is improfitable, not ripe to eat. Wifd. iv. 5. — So may'ft thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap. Milton. a. Refembling the ripenefs pf fruit. — Thofe happieft fmiles, That play'd on her ripe lip.... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 sidor
...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 Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd ; for death mature: This is Old Age ; but then, thou must outlive Thy... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 sidor
...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 Gather'd, not haf shly pluck'd ; for death mature : This is Old Age ; but then, thou must outlive Thy... | |
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