...lover of nature, and familiar with the phenomena passing around him. "Let no flower," he exclaims, "let no flower of the spring pass by us : let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they are withered!" And his writings teem with illustrations derived from the beauties of nature around...

...natural, and such as have Ver. 6. sic. & close connexion with them. Come on therefore, say these men ; let us enjoy the good things that are present ; and...ourselves with costly wine and ointments ; and let nojfoiver of the spring pass by us : let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered...

...in the habit of wearing chaplets of flowers on their heads at feasts. Thus in the book of Wisdom : " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments;...ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered." Chap. ii. 7. And in the Arabian Nights, a person is represented at Bagdad as buying myrtles, lilies,...

...then, " let ш eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." Death maketh pale : " Come on, therefore, fct ns enjoy the good things that are present ; and let us...speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before ihey be withered. "J Thereupon, the question might present itself,...

...— " Come on, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, let us use the creatures as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let not the flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with roses before they be withered,...

...grave. For we are born at all adventure, and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been ; .... come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present; .... let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments ; and let no flower of the spring pass by...

...been, for the breath in our nostrils as as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart ; — Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present ; let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let no flower of the spring pass by us...

...use the creatures as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let not the flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves with roses before they be withered, and let no meadow escape our riot. Let none of us go without his part...

...grave. For we are born at all adventure, and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been, .... come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present, .... let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments ; and let no flower of the spring pass by...

...among the Jews ; for, in the apocryphal book of Wisdom, the sensualists are represented as saying, ' fall upon you : for I am "merciful, saith the LORD,...acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgres are withered' (chap. ii. 7, 8). In another apocryphal book ' the rose-plants of Jericho" (Ecclus. xxiv....