 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 drop Into thy Mother's lap, or be with...  Biography of the Bar of Orleans County, Vermont - Page 93by Frederick W. Baldwin - 1886 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - English poetry - 1824 - 102 pages
...While horror waits on princes. Vittoria Coromb. Act. 5. MILTON. 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. 8 IV. MORS FATALIS. fe AL VE, quae placidi grata sub imagine somni Subrepens, vitae claudis... | |
 | John Gregory - Temperance - 1837 - 128 pages
...Till many years over thy head return; So may'st thou live, till like riper fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease, Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature." Now would all men live up to the rule of temperance here laid down by JMilton, there would be no intemperance... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Puritans - 1846 - 322 pages
...fulfilled the angelic benediction ; " So mayst thou lira, till, like the ripe fruit, thou Drop into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked ; for death mature." His infirmities at last assumed the form of a sickness which long confined him. Patient and resigned... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 672 pages
...Till many years over thy head return, So mayst thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, 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 OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 640 pages
...many years over thy head return, So in'. \ H thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, 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 OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.... | |
 | DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 pages
...Till many years over thy head return, So mayst thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, 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 OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 644 pages
...Till many years over thy head return, So mayst thou live ; till, like ripe fruit, 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 THK SONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...shape and messenger of death. Sackcille. So mayest thou live till, like ripe 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, thy strength, thy bsauty, which will change... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...nourishment, not gluttonous delight ; So thou may'st livs till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature." L THEIR USE is UNIVERSAL. THE business of life is to live. From the earliest infant hour, until the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till like ripe 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, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change... | |
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