 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1831 - 612 pages
...lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open Its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...lamb's fleece : but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin-modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, * It is remarkable, that while Roses abound in almost all parta of the northern hemisphere, they have... | |
 | Literature - 1833 - 478 pages
...full eyes of childhood — from the vigorousness and strong flexures of the joints of five and twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness — to the loathsomeness...softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age — it bofwed the head and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty,... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1833 - 390 pages
...a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 336 pages
...a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Lady Theresa Lewis - Children's literature, English - 1834 - 362 pages
...morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb fleece ; but when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1834 - 658 pages
...lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to pat on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
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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 youthful... 
