 | 1776 - 478 pages
...connatural dust ? There is, said Michael, if thou well observe 55a The rule of not too much, by temp'rance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...The rule of not too much, by temp'rance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thtnte Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : Somay'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drcp Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd,... | |
 | William Butler - 1795 - 242 pages
...GLUTTON. Gluttony, fays Holiday, is a vice in a great fortune ; a curfe in a fmall one. Well obferve The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'lt and drink'ft; feeking from thence Due nourithment, no gluttonous delight. MILTON. Vjtellius,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...connat'ral dust ? There is, said Michael, if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by Temp'rance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking...: 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... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1797 - 446 pages
.... i word temperance, in its ordinary ufe, is limited to moderation in eating and drinking. -Obferve The rule of not too much, by Temperance taught, In what thou eat'ft and drink'ft. PAR. LosT, B. n. It is true, that Spenfer has ufed the term in its more extenfive... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...said Michael, if thou well ohserve The rule of not too much, hy temp'rance taught, In what thoueat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment,...delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayM iliou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or he with ease Gather'd, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...connatural dust ? THERE is, said Michael, if thou well observe 530 The rule of not too much, by temp'rance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...p ERAN c E . ns [tcmferantia, Latin.] i. Moderation : opposed to glutton, and drunkenness. 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. «r Mlltn. temperance,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...rule of not too much, by tcrnp'rance taught, In what thou eat'st and driuk'st, seeking from thenc* Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many...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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...may come TO death, and mix with our connatural dust ? ' There is, said Michael, if thou well observe The rule of Not too much ; by temperance taught, In...gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return t So may'st thou live; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Inlo thy mother's lap * or be with ease Gather'd,... | |
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There is, said Michael, 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... 
