 | George Worley - Bishops - 1904 - 294 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 out-worn faces." — Holy Dying, chap. i. " Ah ! see, whoso fair thing dost fain to see, In springing... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1905 - 492 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." Thomas Browne, knighted by Charles II., was an Oxford man who studied medicine, and... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1905 - 492 pages
...a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its toc youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." Thomas Browne, knighted by Charles II., was an Oxford man who studied medicine, and... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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. When the sentence of death is decreed, and begins to be put in execution, it is sorrow... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1907 - 718 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,...night, having lost some of its leaves and all its Ix'auty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1908 - 514 pages
...fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthfulf and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman, the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Naomi Norsworthy - Children with mental disabilities - 1908 - 648 pages
...of a mightier hand. In the following from Jeremy Taylor there is an alternation of duple and triple: It bowed the head and broke its stalk, and at night...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. Finally a passage from the writing of Thompson-Seton is given, arranged as regular blank... | |
 | Stanton Coit - Christian sociology - 1908 - 502 pages
...fair as the morning, And full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; But when a ruder breath had 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... | |
 | Stanton Coit - Christian sociology - 1908 - 506 pages
...fair as the morning, And full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; But when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...darkness, And to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sicldy age; It bowed its head and broke its stalk ; And at night, having lost some of its leaves and... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe ret1rements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
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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... 
