... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior - עמוד 67מאת Matthew Prior - 1779תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Whittington Henry Landon - 1835 - 198 דפים
...to be a strange and an unknown thing. Man feels it not, and he deems that he needs it not. But " if the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern," and when evil days are come; when desire is failing, and appetite flags; when we " cannot... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 דפים
...goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern : then shall the HOLINEss HONEsTY HOPE. 95 dust return to the earth as it was 1 and the spirit... | |
| George Coles - 1836 - 424 דפים
...theory of tides ? Or of those expressions of Solomon,(Ecc. xii. 6,) " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern ?" Most interpreters agree that Solomon, in this beautiful allegory, is speaking... | |
| 1848 - 508 דפים
...silver cord be loosed, we must become reconciled unto him, if we would enter into his rest ; now, " ere the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern," and ourselves be as though we had not been, our places knowing us no more,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 698 דפים
...goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern ;" — or, to make a shorter quotation, since Homer summed up all these ills by applying to... | |
| 1837 - 518 דפים
...goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken a,t the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern : then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who... | |
| Steve McKenzly - 2002 - 137 דפים
...breaking of the silver cord. ECCLESIASTES 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden howl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God... | |
| Daniel T. O'Hara - 2003 - 396 דפים
...Hereafter cited in the text as AN. 16 See Eccles. 12.6 and 12.7: "Or ever the silver cord be loosed / Or the golden bowl be broken, / Or the pitcher be...broken at the fountain, / Or the wheel broken at the cistern. / Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was." See also William Blake, "The Book of... | |
| John Henry Newman, Saint John Henry Newman - 2003 - 212 דפים
...streets, and the daughters of music are brought low, and desire fails: or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." (Eccles 12: i, 34, 6) We leave the goods of earth before they leave us. Let us not shrink... | |
| Henry E. Meredith - 2003 - 674 דפים
...man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who... | |
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