 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
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...prevailed amongst the Hebrews. "Let us fill ourselves," says Solomon, " with costly wine and ointments; and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered." But, amongst that solemn and poetical people, they were commonly regarded in another... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...use the creatures Tike as in youth. Let us fill ourselves as .with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered. Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 pages
...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 rose-buds, chap. ii. 8. " Wisdom weareth a crown, triumphing for ever," chap. iv. 2. " The fear of the Lord is... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1833 - 394 pages
...in Wisd. ii. 8, are introduced, saying: " 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 withered74." From the Targum, R. David, and the Arabic, Celsius, Hierob. V. i. p. 488, concludes that... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...prevailed amongst the Hebrews. ' Let us fill ourselves,' says Solomon, 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.' But amongst that solemn and poetical people,they were commonly regarded in another and... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 708 pages
...enjoy the good things that are present." " 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 be withered."! Experience, in most cases, soon alters their sentiments, and events arise which impress... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves as with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered. Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness : let us leave tokens of our... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 698 pages
...enjoy the good things that are present." " 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 be withered."^ Experience, in most cases, soon alters their sentiments, and events arise which impress... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...amongst the Hebrews. " Let us fill ourselves," says Solomon, " 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." But amongst that solemn and poetical people they were commonly regarded in another and... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1834 - 436 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... | |
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