 | 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,...symptoms of a 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... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 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. — Bishop Taylor.... | |
 | 1841 - 404 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.—Biihop Taylor.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1843 - 720 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 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 (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 pages
...lamb's fleece : but when a ruder breath had forced upon 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 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. * Holy Dying,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 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... | |
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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... 
