| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 738 pages
...My graces in thy count'nance meet, " And cad their lu'ftre round. Verfe 15. Take f us the foxes, the little foxes that Spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes. " But fmce my bride's a tim'rous dove, " Soon fcarr'd and fat a ft ray; " Care mud bs taken to remove... | |
| American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...he would have therefound the following passage in confirmation of it :.... " Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes" Canticles', c. ii. ver. 15. Jaccals are rather larger thaa English foxes ; but of a brown colour, clumsier... | |
| Maria De Fleury - 1804 - 302 pages
...eternal employ-ment, even praise and thanksgiving to him who hath loved thee. " Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes;'' watch over thine own heart, O my beloved! take heed of those foes, those subtle enemies, who are continually... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...hear thy voice ; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] 15 comely. Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines : for our vines [have] tender grapes. 16 My beloved, [is] mine, and I [am] his : he fcedcth among 17 the lilies. 'Until the day break, and... | |
| Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 644 pages
...mores! or, .in another sense, with tho in the Canticles, ch. ii. r. l¿. •• Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." Never was there such an honourable, ingenious, und profitable mystery and science in the world so basely... | |
| John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pages
...Rev. viii. 3,4. 4 Exod. xxxv. 28. and xxxix. 38. 5 Psalm v. 3. , VER. 15.—Take for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes. This address is plural, ' take ye;' but both by grammar and context, may be assigned to the Beloved's... | |
| William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 654 pages
...I) ¿a'¿wro.' 0 anrv-s ¿‘ or in another scm. wit in the I.)asócks 5 cb. i. cU take en the fexw little foxes, that spoil. the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.” Never was there such an honourable, ingenious, and profitable mystery and science in the world so basely... | |
| Great Britain - 1810 - 630 pages
...»tores! or, in another sense, with the spou»r in the Cauticlw, ch. ii. v. 15. " Take us the foxes, Um little foxes, that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." Never was there such an honourable, ingenious, and prolitable mystery and science in the world so basely... | |
| Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...not injure my vines, for they are young ones." Song of Solomon, ch. 11. v. "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes," (or, our vines KvirpiS.ovai, bud, as it is in the Septuagint). Again, at v. 112. "I hate the brush-tailed... | |
| Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...where the imitation appears to me very striking. Song of Solomon, ch. 11. v. "Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines ; for our vines have tender grapes," (or, our vines κνπρίζουσι, bud, as it is in the Septuagint). Again, at v. 112. " 1 hate the... | |
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