 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 - Page 86by John Hewlett - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Christian life - 1848 - 600 pages
...With Hafez, pleasure is ' the rose of life,' and the voluptuary in Israel sung to the same tune : ' And let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rose-buds ere they he withered.' The rose of Sharon is said to vie with her of Damascus, as the beauty of the... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1848 - 608 pages
...With Hafez, pleasure is ' the rose of life,' and the voluptuary in Israel sung to the same tune : ' And let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rose-buds ere they be withered.' The rose of Sharon is said to vie with her of Damascus, as the beauty of the... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 pages
...after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again. Come '•HJ I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide о speedily use the creatures like as is youth. Let us fill ourselves will costly wine and ointments... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1850 - 438 pages
...let us enjoy it. The great, wise monarch of Jerusalem exclaimed, in reviewing these very things, " Come on, therefore ; let us enjoy the good things...ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered." That was wisdom in Solomon's time, and it is wisdom now. It is wisdom to grasp the good that is before... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1850 - 482 pages
...let us enjoy it. The great, wise monarch of Jerusalem exclaimed, in reviewing these very things, " Come on, therefore; let us enjoy the good things that...ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered." That was wisdom in Solomon's time, and it is wisdom now. It is wisdom to grasp the good that is before... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1850 - 372 pages
...writer of the "Wisdom of Solomon," when, rejoicing in the glad season of the early year, he sang, '• Let no flower of the Spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be gathered." The rose is as much loved as ever, and gathered with delight, whether it hang out from the... | |
 | Jacob Merlo Horstius, Jacobus Merlo (Horstius.) - 1850 - 738 pages
...? MAN. To many this saying, O Lord, is hard, and they cannot receive it. Hence they say, Come, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth. Let not the flower of the time pass by us; let us crow ourselves with roses before they... | |
 | John Evelyn - Church history - 1850 - 610 pages
...extinguished, the body shall be turned into ashes, and the spirit shall vanish in the soft air, &c. Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present .... let us fill ourselves with wine ; let us crown ourselves with rose-buds : let none of us go without... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 496 pages
...extinguished, the body shall be turned into ashes, and the spirit shall vanish in the soft air, &c. . . . . . Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present .... let us fill ourselves with wine ; let us crown ourselves with rose-buds : let none of us go without... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1851 - 250 pages
...moments while they last, and their conduct is emphatically denounced as follv. Thus say the revellers : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered." And thus Wisdom passes judgment upon their imaginations : " Such things they did imagine, and were... | |
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