 | Andrew Alexander Bonar, Robert Murray M'Cheyne - Christianity and other religions - 1839 - 608 pages
...flowers just forming into the grape, so that the delightful fragranco diffused itself far and wide. " The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell."J In many of the vineyards we saw the towers, built for protection and for... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; the fig-tree putteth forth...green figs, and the vines, with the tender grape, per3 Acts xx. 33, 34. * Paradise Lost. » Matt. xxvi. 36. fume the air. Arise, my love, my fair, and... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - Botany, Medical - 1842 - 578 pages
...The flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing-birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The Fig-tree putteth forth her green Figs, and the vines, with the tender grapes, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away." But Isaiah's strain of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1842 - 980 pages
...flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and tte voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; the fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and1 tb* But with addition strange ; yet be not sad : Evil into the mind of God or man , May come and... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pages
...flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; the fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell." (Cant. 2. 10-13.) The figs were not eaten fresh, but were preserved for... | |
 | M. C. Best - Creation - 1844 - 204 pages
...flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; the fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell." Cant. ii. 11. For the "stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1844 - 446 pages
...presence of the all-reviving spring. " The voice of the turtle * Matt., xxvi., 36. is heard in oar land, the fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape perfume the air." The passage is not more remarkable for the liveliness than for the elegance of the... | |
 | American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...of the vine fill every vineyard, and all the circumambient air, with the most delicious fragrance. " The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tend^^ grape give a good smell." Such is the season, so lavish of charms, that is chosen in this divine... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away! ' Come, my beloved! let us go... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 616 pages
...Solomon's : ' The winter is past, the rain is over and gone ; the flowers appear upon the earth. . . . The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape ffice a good smell ;' for the grape-vines are every where in blossom, and the air is laden with their... | |
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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 our land ; The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender... 
