| James Talboys Wheeler - 1854 - 702 pages
...colour and workmanship. Showing this to each of the company, the bearer cried, " Look upon this, and then drink and enjoy yourself; for when dead you will be like unto this/" One of the most extraordinary relics of antiquity preserved by the Aegyptians was one peculiar... | |
| James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 486 pages
...imitation of a corpse. Showing this to each of the company, the bearer would cry, " Look upon this, and then drink and enjoy yourself; for, when dead, you will be like unto this." The conviviality of the party, however, would be scarcely disturbed by this gloomy apparition,... | |
| James Baldwin Brown - 1862 - 460 pages
...one or two cubits in length ; and showing this to each of the company he says, ' Look upon this, and then drink and enjoy yourself, for when dead you will be like this.' " — Herod. ii. 78. And is not this the world ? Is not the wisdom, which might have traced the path... | |
| 1862 - 538 pages
...generally about one or two cubits in length. ' Look upon this,' would the attendant say to the guest, ' then drink and enjoy yourself; for when dead you will be like this.' So Cyrenaic a version of the dum v! sim us viiiem.ui is, perhaps, not the truest homily to put into... | |
| John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...which, if true, would seem to imply a struggle against, and a wish to abstain from, a common sin : — " At their convivial banquets, among the wealthy classes,...This practice they have at their drinking parties." Perhaps it may be regarded as . corroborative evidence in favour of the simple manners claimed for... | |
| Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 pages
...supper, a man carries round in a coffin the image of a dead body carved in wood, made as life-like as possible in colour and workmanship, and in size...This practice they have at their drinking parties." IT A similar practice appears to have been followed by the Greeks and Romans.** Among the Greeks, the... | |
| Julian St. Clare - 1880 - 292 pages
...coffin the image of a dead body, which each one contemplated while this exhortation was pronounced — " Look upon this, then drink and enjoy yourself, for when dead you will be like it" — a custom introduced at first to curb lawless passion, and reprove unseemly mirth, but which... | |
| Samuel Edward Dawson - 1884 - 150 pages
...among the wealthy classes, when they have finished supper, a man carries round in a coffin the imao'e of a dead body carved in wood, made as like as possible...This practice they have at their drinking parties." Line 84. Oh were I thou, that she might take me in, And lay me on her bosom, and her heart Would rock... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 200 pages
...carries round in a coffin the image of a dead body carved in wood, made as like as possible in color and workmanship, and in size generally about one or...enjoy yourself ; for when dead you will be like this.' " 85. And her heart, etc. Cf. Shakespeare, V. and A. 1185: " Lo, in this hollow cradle take thy rest,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 248 pages
...carries round in a coffin the image of a dead body carved in wood, made as like as possible in color and workmanship, and in size generally about one or...enjoy yourself ; for when dead you will be like this." ' 71. What time. From Milton? See my note in Paradise Lost, Books land II (on I. 36). —Swallow. Cf.... | |
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