 My beloved spake, And said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in...  The Young Man's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the ... - Page 751853 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1811 - 702 pages
...the author of the present volume quotes from Dr. Beattie on this passage from the song of Solomon: " My beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away." The doctor says, " Virgil himself would not versify it, for fear of hurting... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...passages which are spoken on the like occasion, and filled with the same pleasing images of nature. ' My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, . my love, my fair one, and come away ! for, lo ! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear... | |
 | Maria De Fleury - 1804 - 302 pages
...all my unworthiness, and all my enemies ; and be thou like a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. My beloved spake, and said unto me, " Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away : rise up from the death of sin, to the life of faith and righteousness ; for... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...passages which are spoken on the like occasion, and filled with the same pleasing images of nature. " My beloved spake, and said unto me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ; for lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone ; the flowers appear... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1806 - 578 pages
...trouble. He cometh forth as a " flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and con" tinueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following...for fear of hurting its harmony ; and yet every word it common, and there is not the least appearance of art in the composition : " My beloved spake, and... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 410 pages
..." is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh " forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continuetli not. ' Virgil himself...beloved " spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my " fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter " is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers " appear... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 414 pages
...trouble. He cometh Jl forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continueth not." Virgil himself would not versify the following...beloved " spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my " fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter " is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers " appear... | |
 | Sir William Forbes - 1807 - 416 pages
...trouble. He cometh *{ forth as a flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth " also as a shadow, and continueth not.'' Virgil himself would not versify the following...of art in the composition : " My beloved " spake, aad said unto me, Rise up, my love, my " fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter " is past, the... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pages
...through the lattice,' as introductory, by the explication I have given, of what follows. VER. 10. — My Beloved spake and said unto me, Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away. From this, to the 15th verse inclusive is the Beloved's \ 1 Lev. viii. 9.... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. 10 but there was no sword in the hand of David. 51 Therefo fair one, and come away. 11 For 'lo, the winter is past, the rain, is over and gone ; 1 2 The flowers... | |
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