 I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that...  Curiosities of Literature - Page 502by Isaac Disraeli - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Richard Frederick Littledale - 1869 - 490 pages
...praise shall be as the praise of them that feast." 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to •speak. For roof of the mouth or palate the LXX. and Vulgate read throat. But the inner meaning, that of the... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees, Dawson Burns - 1870 - 536 pages
...and the V., iieut botri vinea. CHAPTER VIL VERSE 9. And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. AND THE ROOF OF THY MOUTH] Hebrew, vl-hhihhah, ' and thy palate.' " The palate seems (here) to be delicately... | |
 | Henry P. Linton - 1873 - 288 pages
...also has wine, but what a difference, our wine is the good wine, Jno. ii. 10, "the best wine" for our beloved, that goeth down sweetly, "causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak," Cant. vii. 9. Theirs is but as the vine of Sodom, Deut. xxxii. 32 ; their grapes are "grapes of gall,"... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...Solomon ii. 15. Terrible as an army with banners. The Song of Solomon vi. 4, IO. Like the best wine, .... that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. The Song of Solomon vii. 9. Love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave. The Song of Solomon... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1875 - 520 pages
...published a catalogue of rabbinical writers, and called it Labia Dormientium, from Cantic. vii, 9, « Like the best wine of my beloved that goeth down sweetly,...causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. 1 It hath a double meaning, of which he was not aware, for most of his rabbinical brethren talk very... | |
 | 1875 - 264 pages
...(Cant. v. 1.) Part of the description of the bride is, " The roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." (Chap. vii. 9.) This passage well illustrates the fact that all scripture hangs together — is one... | |
 | Alexander Dickson - 1875 - 242 pages
...Elim and " the dew of Hermon," 4 and pleasanter and far more cheering than " the wine of Lebanon," 6 " that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." 6 It is " an alabaster box of very precious ointment " 7 that never can be broken and poured out till... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - 1875 - 532 pages
...below the first. It is prepared in milk, and is a thick, soft liquid that melts on your tongue and "goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." That dame would make her fortune by such a cafe" in New York. But, then, she probably wishes for no... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - 1875 - 518 pages
...the first. It is prepared in milk, and is a thick, soft liquid that melts on your tongue and"goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." That dame would make her fortune by such a cafe" in New York. But, then, she probably wishes for no... | |
 | 1875 - 842 pages
...and compares her mouth to best wine, she interrupts him with the exclamation, " For my beloved, going down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." Immediately she is, in imagination, in the fields •with him, his left hand under her head, and his... | |
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