 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...the dew of heaven, as the lamb's fleece ; but when a 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 outworn faces. So does the fairest beauty change, and it will be as bad with you and me ; and then... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 602 páginas
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 598 páginas
...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 put on darkness, and to decline to soft. ness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night,... | |
 | John Angell James - 1827 - 196 páginas
...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,...fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces."* But besides, admitting that you should live, is not your inclination likely, if possible, to be less... | |
 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - 1827 - 240 páginas
...when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 620 páginas
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 páginas
...retirements, it begins to decline to the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bows the head and breaks the stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, falls into the lap of noisome weeds."§ • Oemelli, vol. v. Nspoli, 1/08. • Agellina, lib. iii.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1831 - 240 páginas
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | 1832 - 206 páginas
...man. " But so I have 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...the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, * It is remarkable, that while Roses abound in almost all parta of the northern hemisphere, they have... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1833 - 390 páginas
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
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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... 
