We miss the rich aroma of their Nectared speech, and find only the grounds left.
"The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible"
R. Heber Newton
He had elegant tastes, he built fine palaces, he collected paintings, and he discoursed of the fine arts with the skill and eloquence of a practised connoisseur; but the Nectared fruits of divine philosophy were but harsh and crabbed to him.
"The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1563-64"
John Lothrop Motley
14 Too soon, when man profaned the blessings given, And vengeance armed to blot a guilty age, With bright Astrea to my native heaven I fled, and flying saw the deluge rage; 15 Saw bursting clouds eclipse the noontide beams, While sounding billows from the mountains rolled, With bitter waves polluting all my streams, My Nectared streams, that flowed on sands of gold.
"Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Vol. 3"
George Gilfillan