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" And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. "
The Plays of William Shakspeare ... - Page 290
by William Shakespeare - 1785
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Life. New facts regarding the life ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...ci, where the prophet, in describing the desolation of Judah, says, " The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers," &c. It appears that these lonely buildings were necessary, as the cucumbers, &c. were obliged to be constantly...
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Tracts for the Times: Nos. 77, 71-76

John Henry Newman, John Keble, William Palmer, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Isaac Williams - Anglican Communion - 1839 - 532 pages
...in your presence, and it it desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have...
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Letters on Palestine and Egypt: Written During Two Years' Residence

John D. Paxton - Egypt - 1839 - 350 pages
...trees, as otherwise they might be pillaged. Reference is made to these towers 16* in Scripture — " as a cottage in a vineyard" — " as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers," Is. i. 8 — " built a town in it" (the vineyard) Matt. xxi. 23. The ground on which Bethlehem stands...
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Letters from Palestine

John D. Paxton - Egypt - 1839 - 284 pages
...fruit-trees, as otherwise they might be pillaged. Reference is made to these towers in Scripture, " as a cottage in a vineyard," — " as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers," Isaiah i. 8 ; " built a tower in it," (the vineyard,) Matt. xxi. 23. The ground on which Bethlehem...
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Home Life in China

Isaac Taylor Headland - China - 1914 - 374 pages
...a little place in which a man could rest and sleep. They look very much, no doubt, like Isaiah's " cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers." As we were about to enter the great gate we saw men with little tables loaded with cash (Chinese money)....
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Notes on Shakespeare's Workmanship

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1917 - 360 pages
...open our Bible for comparison, say, at the first chapter of Isaiah: And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Supposing ourselves lodged in a garden of cucumbers, what could we more appropriately...
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The War and the Gospel: Sermons & Addresses During the Present War

Henry Wace - Sermons, English - 1917 - 364 pages
...in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." Might not our hearts almost fail us as we contemplate such a volcanic eruption...
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Intensifying Similes in English ...

Torsten Hilding Svartengren - English language - 1918 - 558 pages
...as a lodge in warren. Shak., MA. This is a reference to Isaiah, i, 8 : "The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers." This seems to be a well-known passage to judge from the following quotation: — "Go thy ways home,...
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How to Know the Bible

George Hodges - Bible - 1918 - 382 pages
...in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have...
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Shakespeare's Workmanship

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1919 - 378 pages
...open our Bible for comparison, say, at the first chapter of Isaiah : And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Supposing ourselves lodged in a garden of cucumbers, what could we more appropriately...
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