 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Logan - 1807 - 236 pagina’s
...frequently a season of delusion. When youth scatters its blandishments, and the song of pleasure is heard, " Let us crown " ourselves with rose-buds before they are withered, " and let no flower of tiie spring pass away ;" the inexperienced and the unwary listen to the sound, and surrender... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 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.—... | |
 | Richard Polwhele - 1810 - 472 pagina’s
...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 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
...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,... | |
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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... 
