 ... and bold excrescences, and spend itself in leaves and little rings, and afford but trifling clusters to the winepress, and a faint return to his heart, which longed to be refreshed with a full vintage : but when the lord of the vine had caused the...  Thalaba the Destroyer - Page 86by Robert Southey - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - 1821 - 314 pages
...; but when the Lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy branches, and made accounts of that loss of blood, by the return of fruit." " And... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1816 - 588 pages
...: but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy branches, and made. accounts of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. So is... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 650 pages
...: but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made accounts of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. So is... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 658 pages
...; but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made accounts of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. So is... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1826 - 644 pages
...: but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made accounts of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. So is... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 706 pages
...: but when the ford of the vine had caused thd dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its Vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made accounts of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. So is... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 806 pages
...vintage; but wlwu the Lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, aod made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy branches, ami maile accounts of that loss of blood, by the return of fruit.ยป Note... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1831 - 428 pages
...: but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made accounts of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. So is... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1831 - 446 pages
...: but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and made it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made accounts of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. So is... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...outwardness, Wasting the sap and strength That should have given forth fruit, But when I pruned the plant. Then it grew temperate in its vain expense Of useless...clusters, to repay The hand that wisely wounded it. Kepine not, O my son ! In wisdom and in mercy Heaven inflicts Its painful remedies." [From Thalaba.]... | |
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