 Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds...  The home tutor, a treasury of self-culture - Page 474by Home tutor - 1862Full view - About this book
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let no flower of the spring pass by us : let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered : let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our... | |
 | 1905 - 726 pages
...the cry of the revellers, as he who saw vanity under the sun heard them crying in the streetway : ' Let ' no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves ' with roses before they be withered,' for the day passes, and * Tate Gallery. the night. For every man his... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered. Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our... | |
 | William Tighe - 1808 - 182 pages
...Anacreon." III. p. 94. The eastern use of this flower in festivals is noticed in Wisdom. C. II. v. 7, 8. " Let no flower of the spring pass by us, let us crown ourselves with Rose-buds, before they be withered." See a floor strewed with Roses in the Hereulaneum Paintings, III. p. 61. 135. Pravins.—... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pages
...enjoy the good things that are pre" sent. Let us fill ourselves with costly wines " and ointments; and let no flower of the *' spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves " with rose-buds before they be withered. Let *f none of us go without his part of our volup" tuousness. Let us leave tokens of... | |
 | 1808 - 558 pages
...an Eastern writer, shows the contrary : Let us fill ourselves with costly ivine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered. Ch. ii. 7, 8. Here, instead of citing any passage from Western writers, I would set down... | |
 | Richard Polwhele - 1810 - 472 pages
...speedily use the creatures, as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : And let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered." Wisdom, ii. 6, 7, 8. See, also, Kcclesiastes, xi. 9. Isaiah, v. 12. Jeremiah, xxii. 14.... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pages
...proper opportunities. But we have this custom described at full length in Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus : " Let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds," chap. ii. 8. " Wisdom weareth a crown, triumphing for ever," chap. iv. 2. " The fear of the Lord is... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1815 - 436 pages
...following passage of the book of Wisdom : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, And let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown...ourselves with rose-buds, before they are withered." WISD. 11. 7, 8, 2. — the exceedingly strong one] »3T!<b V»DK, fortis Domino, ie fortissi. mis,... | |
 | Isaiah (the prophet) - 1822 - 464 pages
...following passage of the book of Wisdom : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, And let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown...ourselves with rose-buds, before they are withered." Wisd. ii. 7, 8. 2. — the exceedingly strong one] 'ji«b yn«, fortis Domino, ie fortissimus, a Hebraism.... | |
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