The Scotch Maiden was once what the vintage feasts of the Continent were, and still are.
Once more through miles of trellised vines The purple bloom of vintage glows; Once more amid my palms and pines I breathe the perfume of the rose.
He only drank the precious wine of youth, The outbreak of the grapes, before the vintage Was trodden to bitterness by the feet of men.
And yet the vintage was good, in sooth; The self-same juice, the self-same cask!
As the folk of the vintage before the vats Go out from the house of the wine-press by all the doors like a torrent, My blood by all these wounds goes out to meet you in triumph.
But if one can tell the vintage of a wine by its taste Why should we not believe that each generation of men Springing from the maternal furrow in its season Keeps a common secret, a changeless knot in the hidden texture of its wood?
The vintage is wholly trodden, and from my wounds there oozes only water.
Mere children of nature may abandon themselves to the riotous joy of harvest and vintage festivals, for they have never known other gods than are suitably worshipped by these orgies.
The seasons shall jostle each other, harvest following hard upon seed-time, vintage upon spring.
The wine flagon has more attraction for me than the fullest of moons, and I have some rare Rhenish in my cellars regarding which I was about to invite your criticism--a more potent vintage than this of the Saar.
The white wines of the Moselle, supplemented by the vintage of the Saar, speedily drove away all remembrance of the day's fatigue.
I glean a berry here and there, But mourn the vintage past.
Old women, whom you would really think at their last gasp, become at the harvest and vintage times as active and healthy as girls.
And that we would bring the firstfruits of our meats, and of our libations, and the fruit of every tree, of the vintagealso and of oil to the priests, to the storehouse of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites.
The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.
Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.
They reap the field that is not their own, and gather the vintage of his vineyard whom by violence they have oppressed.
If thou make the vintage of thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather the clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
Later in the season, when the true vintage time should come, and the wine of Sunshine gush into the vats, it was hardly too wild a dream that Bacchus himself might revisit the haunts which he loved of old.
Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.
Your forefathers, my dear Count, must have been joyous fellows, keeping up the vintage merriment throughout the year.
Coming from Orvieto we found Viterbo very gay and gracious, with exquisite fountains making music in all her piazzas, and her mediaeval streets full of the merry air of vintage time.
It was through these streets that we saw the vintage coming in through the ancient Porta San Pietro under the shadow of the magnificent palace which was the home of Donna Olimpia Pamphili, the infamous sister-in-law of Innocent X.
We watched the gathering of the golden maize in the plain below Assisi while we walked with St. Francis among the vines and olives; we saw the vintage being brought home with song and thanksgiving at Orvieto and Viterbo.
Many of the peasants have not even heard of the name of Hannibal, nor dream that where they gather their purplevintage to-day the earth was reddened once by Roman blood.
She held her peace while the great lady was wooed and won, while the marriage joys came with the purple vintage time, while the people were made drunk at the bridal of their chatelaine in those hot, ruddy, luscious autumn days.
For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.
Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.
O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.
The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed.
Thou shalt yet plant vineyards in the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and they shall not gather the vintage before the time.
And so in Ode LIX, which seems to be a vintage hymn.
Vintage years have much to do with the quality of wines.
The best vintage years are as follows: Champagnes: 1892.
At the festival of vintage there was a demonstration of a truly barbarous sort.
Feasts there were at the seasons of reaping and vintage which were of a bright and comparatively harmless character; and it was by taking part in these that Hebrew families began their acquaintance with the heathenism of the country.
Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
Again visited the town, where we found an American brig, the Vintage of Salem, Captain Frye.
The annual vintage in this and a neighboring valley, appertaining to the same parish, amounts to about seventy-five pipes of wine.
Drink another cup of wine at least," she said, smiling and filling their mugs with the sweet vintage of Lebanon--for it seemed to please her to see them eat so heartily of her fare.
Yet I will ask you, sir," he added to Sir Andrew, "to lighten the load a little by accepting this small keg of the old sweet vintage that grows on the slopes of Trooidos.
They say it was my patron St. Helena's favourite vintage when she visited Cyprus, bringing with her Disma's cross.
The vine-grower's troubles do not end when thevintage is successfully over.
I was assured that the quantity of wine last vintage was so prodigious that they were forced to dig holes in the earth to put it in.
When first I saw the vintage in the Tokay district, I was greatly interested in the novelty of the whole scene.
This wine, which is almost as black as ink, comes from Negotin, lower down the Danube, and is rather a celebrated vintage I was informed.
It is not till the third or fourth week in October that the vintage is to be looked for.
However, this proves little, for the cuts appended to the months for gathering in the vintage represent scenes of hawkings and boar-huntings; the labours of the husbandmen being evidently subordinate.
