 | Theology - 1862 - 978 pages
...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 retirements,...to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and then symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and at night, having lost some... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...dew of heaven, as the Iamb's fleece; but when the ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced upon its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed ihe head, and broke its stalk; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and ail its beauty, Amené... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...fleece ; but when a ruder breath forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful »rd unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age.; it bowed this head and broke its stalk; and, at night, having lost some of iU leaves, and all itx beauty, it... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 440 pages
...with the dew of heaven as a lamb-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 darkness, and decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk, and at... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1886 - 304 pages
...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 retirements,...symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head and broke its stock; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1886 - 550 pages
...suis dew of heaven, as a lamb's fieece; but when a ruder breath had forced upon its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to décline to softness and thé symptoms of a sickly âge : it bowed thé head, and broke its stalk;... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - Anecdotes - 1888 - 708 pages
...with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude blast had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...same is the] portion of every man and every woman. — Jeremy Taylor. 3368. LIFE, Changes in. I have heard it said, but I cannot be sponsor for its truth,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...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 retirements,...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthiul and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness...of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stock; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of... | |
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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... 
