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 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...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 drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease i' '.i. ."' Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature This... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease 536 Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. This is old... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...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 drop 535 Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature : '1 his... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...taught, In what thou eat'st and driuk'st, seeking from thenc* 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st ; 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...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 drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd ; for death mature: This is Old Age... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...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 drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with ease Gather'd, not haf shly pluck'd ; for death mature : This is Old... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...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 tbou drop 535 Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease / Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature.... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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 drop Into thy mother's lap ; or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd; for death mature. This is old age... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years o'er 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 mature. So also, in describing... | |
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