 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 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...repay The hand that wisely wounded it. Repine not, О my Son ! In wisdom and in mercy Heaven inflicts Its painful remedies." 18. Then pausing, — "Whither... | |
 | Pictures - 1841 - 222 pages
...; but when the Lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant and make it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made account of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. The Father... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...but when the Lord of the vineyard had caused the dressers to cut the wilder-plant and make it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy branches, and made account of that loss of blood by the return of fruit . — Jeremy... | |
 | James Brogden - 1842 - 586 pages
...vintage: 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1844 - 1156 pages
...; but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and make it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made account of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. It is thus... | |
 | 1871 - 860 pages
...but when the Lord of the vineyard had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant and make it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy branches, and made account of the loss of blood by return of fruit" Here is Southey's... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1845 - 848 pages
...outwardness Wasting the sap and strength That should have given forth fruit. But when I pruned the plant, to, the leaves of pimpernel, only something longer....fruit at the end of certain strings ; as soon as 1 In wisdom and in mercy Heaven inflicts Its painful remedies." 18. Then pausing,. ." Whither goest... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 674 pages
...; but when the lord of the vine had caused the dressers to cut the wilder plant, and make it bleed, it grew temperate in its vain expense of useless leaves, and knotted into fair and juicy bunches, and made account of that loss of blood by the return of fruit. It is thus... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1850 - 702 pages
...j 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... | |
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... 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... 
