 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 wines and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : let us crown ourselves with...  Sermons on various subjects - Pagina 86door John Hewlett - 1825Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Farrer - 1801 - 394 pagina’s
...votaries, by which they encourage one another in every intemperate and unlawful indulgence, Come on, ht \is enjoy the good things that are present; and let us speedily use the creatures in oirr youth: let us fill oursclres tcith costly vine and ointments : and let no Jlotrer of the spring... | |
 | 1905 - 726 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pagina’s
...we can" Let us enjoy the good things that are pre" sent. Let us fill ourselves with costly wines " and ointments; and let no flower of the *' spring...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 our joy" fulness... | |
 | 1808 - 558 pagina’s
...who was undoubtedly an Eastern writer, shows the contrary : Let us fill ourselves with costly ivine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass...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 the following... | |
 | William Tighe - 1808 - 182 pagina’s
...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.— This Rose... | |
 | Richard Polwhele - 1810 - 472 pagina’s
...away as the trace of a cloud — as a mist in the beams of the sun : for our time is a very shadow. Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : Let us speedily use the creatures, as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...as well as among the Greeks and Bomans, appears from the following passage of the book of Wisdom : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...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... | |
 | 1822 - 696 pagina’s
...our spirit shall vanish as the soft air. Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that arc present : and let us speedily use the creatures like...and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass bj us : let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they he withered : let none of us go without... | |
 | Isaiah (the prophet) - 1822 - 464 pagina’s
...as well as among the Greeks and Romans, appears from the following passage of the book of Wisdom : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...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,... | |
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