 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 720 pages
...a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forccd upon its vi:gin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to décline to softness and the syraptoms of a sickly age : it bowed ihe head, and broke its stalk; and.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...Iamb's fleece ; but when the ruder breath h_d 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 sialk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 540 pages
...a 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, il fell into the portion... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp, Benjamin Orme - Devotional literature - 1866 - 424 pages
...lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin N 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 portions... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 pages
...and honour. — Anon. when a mder 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... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - Self-culture - 1867 - 292 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.) - 1869 - 166 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude beauty 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...had forced open its virgin modesty, mid dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements it b;-gan to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, r.nd oroke its etalk ; and at night, having lost pome of it-* leaves, and all its hennty, it f>-ll... | |
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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... 
