 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...from thenco Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mnyst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, to be with etse Ciather'd, not harshly pluck'd, in death matat:. READINGS AND RECITATIONS. 733. PoiiTic.ii... | |
 | 1846 - 318 pages
...upon New England. In him was fulfilled the angelic benediction ; " So mayst thou live, till, like the ripe fruit, thou Drop into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, uot harshly plucked ; for death mature." His infirmities at last assumed the form of a sickness... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 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... | |
 | John Milton - 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... | |
 | 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, Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd ; in death matureMilton. O madness, to think use of strongest wines And... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 416 pages
...there is no grief nor any bitterness : but as a ripe apple is lightly and without violence loosened from its branch, so our soul without grieving departs from the body in which it hath been," &c. The rest of this passage is still higher. Guido is praised in it. 10 "Yield yourselves unto God,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 490 pages
...and turn to God with all our understanding and heart, that we may reach this haven with all suavity so our soul without grieving departs from the body in which it hath been," &c. The rest of this passage is still higher. Guido is praised in it. : " Yield yourselves unto God,... | |
 | 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 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... | |
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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... 
