 | 1834 - 464 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 334 pages
...rude 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,...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... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood ;" and says : — 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 of its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and te 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... | |
 | 1837 - 352 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...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age---it bowed the head and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1837 - 1130 pages
...a lamb's fleece; but when a rude 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 (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1838 - 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1838 - 610 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... | |
 | 1838 - 660 pages
...virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 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, &c. i Dedication... | |
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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... 
