 | Norman Macleod - Domestics - 1857 - 200 pages
...the- dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke the stalk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Baptists - 1861 - 392 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."* The picture of man's earthly life may thus be pourtrayed. And we cannot look back... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 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,...having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fefl into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...the dew of \vea\exv, lamb's fleece ; but when the ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its sialk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline...symptoms of a sickly age— it bowed the head and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, fell into the portion... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 588 pages
...breath bad forced open its virgin modeety, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirement», it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the Symptoms of a sickly age; it bow«! the head, and broke its eulk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 610 pages
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath bad forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to noftness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; It bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and at night,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1861 - 478 pages
...63.] 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. The same is the portion of every man and every woman, the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 552 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. * • * « • [Shall I not quote further than my need requires of this striking passage... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - 486 pages
...virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, aud to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly...fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces." Jeremy Taylor's " Holy Dying.." But besides, admitting that you should live, is not your inclination... | |
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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... 
