 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 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 out-worn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 páginas
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude 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 dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 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,...lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell, &c. * Holy Dying, ch. i. t Dedication to Holy Dying, The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 páginas
...the fymptoms of a fickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its ftalk, and at night, having loft fome of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The fame is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and ferpents,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 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 darkucis, ar.cl to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, Ӏ t ҂ 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.) - 1847 - 434 páginas
...the fymptoms of a fickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its ftalk, and at night, having loft fome of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The fame is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and ferpents,... | |
 | Frances Sargent Osgood - 1848 - 308 páginas
...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 it leaves, and all its beauty, it fell with the portion of weeds and outworn faces." I pray thee do... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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,...lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell," &c. SHAKSPEAKE. " Then think no more of me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the sullen passing-bell... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...the dew of heaven, as » lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its stalk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaven, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion... | |
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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... 
