 | 536 pages
...ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirement, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness,...sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk; and atnigbt having lost some of its leaves, aud all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of 2'ttlyage; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at agin, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell '4'i the portion of weeds and outworn fences. THe same u the portion of every man and every woman ;... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 pages
...the dews 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,...lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell. — Bishop Taylor. 240 THE OCEAN. Original. THE OCEAN. RТ ,•O!:•, E. EDWARDS. Tик moment in... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...the dews 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,...having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell.—Biihop Taylor. Original. THE OCEAN. RT jrmv E. EDWARDS. TRE moment in which I caught a first... | |
 | Robert Tyas - Flower language - 1842 - 462 pages
...to put on darkness, and decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age came on ; it bowed its head and broke its stalk ; and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell with the portion of weeds and outworn faces." Go! lovely rose I Tell her that wastes her time, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...the dew of heaven, as the lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder brcuth 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. So does the fairest beauty change, and it will be as bad with you and me ; and then... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 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." And thus it is with every man. " He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 pages
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 pages
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece : but when a ruder breath had forced upon its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces. STRANGE FANCY OF A GERMAN GENTLEMAN. I HAVE read of a fair young German gentleman,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 pages
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
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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... 
