 FRIENDSHIP has chosen for its device an ivy which clothes a fallen tree, with these words: " Rien ne pent m'en detacher." In Greece, the altar of Hymen was surrounded with ivy, a sprig of which was presented by the priest to a new-married spouse, as the...  A floral guide for east Kent - Page 33by Matthew Henry Cowell - 1839 - 98 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Baxter - Angiosperms - 1834 - 348 pages
...Poetic Garland. Bacchus is represented crowned with Ivy, to prevent intoxication ; and HOMER describes his heroes as drinking out of a cup made of the wood. The fruit bearing branches of it, are used, with Holly, to decorate churches and houses at Christmas.... | |
 | M. H. Cowell - Plants - 1839 - 140 pages
...that Bacchus, the Bacchantes, and Silcnus, arc represented .is being crowned with it. Homer describes his heroes as drinking out of a cup made of the wood,...sprig of which was presented, by the priest, to a newly-manied spouse. Ptolemy Philopater ordered all the Jews, who had abjured their religion, to be... | |
 | Robert Tyas - Flower language - 1842 - 462 pages
...its device an ivy which clothes a fallen tree, with these words : — " Rien ne pent m'en detacher." In Greece, the altar of Hymen was surrounded with...a sprig of which was presented by the priest to a newmarried spouse as the symbol of an indissoluble knot. The Bacchantes, old Silenus, and Bacchus himself,... | |
 | Frances Sargent Osgood - Flower language - 1848 - 308 pages
...for its device an ivy which clothes a fallen tree, with these words: " Rien ne pent m'en detacher." In Greece, the altar of Hymen was surrounded with...a sprig of which was presented by the priest to a new-married spouse, as the symbol of an indissoluble knot. The Bacchantes, old Silenus, and Bacchus... | |
 | Mrs. Catharine Harbeson (Waterman) Esling - Flower language - 1861 - 280 pages
...its device an ivy which clothes a fallen tree, with these words : — " Rien ne pent m'en detacher." In Greece, the altar of Hymen was surrounded with...a sprig of which was presented by the priest to a new-married spouse, as the symbol of an indissoluble knot. The Bacchantes, old Silenus, and Bacchus... | |
 | Frances Sargent Locke Osgood - Flower language - 1863 - 310 pages
...for its device an ivy which clothes a fallen tree, with these words: " Rien ne peut m'en detacher." In Greece, the altar of Hymen was surrounded with...a sprig of which was presented by the priest to a new-married spouse, as the symbol of an indissoluble knot. The Bacchantes, old Silenus, and Bacchus... | |
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