 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1839 - 604 pages
...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...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke the stalk, and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | 536 pages
...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 and unripe retirement, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age;... | |
 | 1840 - 818 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of 2'ttlyage; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at agin, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell '4'i the portion of weeds and outworn fences. THe same u the portion of every man and every woman ;... | |
 | 1841 - 346 pages
...fair as the morning, and full with the dews of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled...lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell. — Bishop Taylor. 240 THE OCEAN. Original. THE OCEAN. RТ ,•O!:•, E. EDWARDS. Tик moment in... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...fair as the morning, and full with the dews of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled...having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell.—Biihop Taylor. Original. THE OCEAN. RT jrmv E. EDWARDS. TRE moment in which I caught a first... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1842 - 462 pages
...to put on darkness, and decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age came on ; it bowed its head and broke its stalk ; and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell with the portion of weeds and outworn faces." Go! lovely rose I Tell her that wastes her time, and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...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 beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 pages
...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 beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds, and outworn faces." And thus it is with every man. " He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as the lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder brcuth had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces. So does the fairest beauty change, and it will be as bad with you and me ; and then... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 pages
...was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
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... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. 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... 
