| Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...from the vigorousness and strong flexures of the joints of five and twenty, to the hollownese and deed paleness — to the loathsomeness and horror of a...broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of it« leave«, and all its beauty, fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces.— Jeremy Taylor.... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1852 - 800 pages
...lamb's fleece ; but when the 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 literature, American - 1850 - 790 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...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."' If such process... | |
| 1854 - 738 pages
...Iamb'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 - English literature - 1854 - 1232 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... | |
| Frederick William Shelton - 1908 - 630 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." If such process... | |
| Frederick William Shelton - 1856 - 318 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." If such process... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - Harmony (Philosophy) - 1856 - 340 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 its head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it... | |
| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 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... | |
| Henry Musgrave Wilkins - Latin language - 1857 - 210 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.—JEREMY TAYLOR.... | |
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