 ... 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...  An Outline of the History of Christian Literature - Page 387by George Leopold Hurst - 1926 - 547 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...hood, and i 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 retirements, it began to pat on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Authors, English - 1836 - 312 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 the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, a. a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder brenth >v x c {| E 8 Nd tHz = Rjl ŀܠ1 l0 o B N X D` b ^ v p ! uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and te decline to softness, and the symptoms of a... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1837 - 1130 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... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...a lamb's fleece-— but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age---it bowed the head and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 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...lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell, &c. i Dedication to Holy Dying. f Holy Dying. The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 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;... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 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 ;... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 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... | |
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