 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age, it bowed its head and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 350 pages
...the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. With the progress of knowledge and discussion many kinds of prose literature, which... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Authors, English - 1898 - 336 pages
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke iis stalk ; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 346 pages
...the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. With the progress of knowledge and discussion many kinds of prose literature, which... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 516 pages
...first it was fair as JEREMY TAYLOR morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece . . . and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." II. THE POETRY OF THE PURITAN AGE The Drama. • — A number of dramatists who, by... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...with the dew of Heaven as a Lamb'sfleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put OD darkness, and decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 474 pages
...with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece. But when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. — JEREMY TAYLOR : The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, Chapter i., § 2. /. Sincerity... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 438 pages
...the dew of heaven, as the lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. So does the fairest beauty change, and it will be as bad with you and me ; and then... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 476 pages
...with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece. But when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. — JEREMY TAYLOR : The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, Chapter i., § 2. /. Sincerity... | |
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But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too... 
