 ... springing from the clefts of its hoo'd, 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 youthful and unripe retirements,...  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 160edited by - 1805Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age, it bowed...leaves, and all 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 ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age, it bowed...leaves, and all 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 ;... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 602 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed...leaves and all 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 598 pages
...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,...leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is th«j portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms... | |
 | John Angell James - 1827 - 196 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed...leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces."* But besides, admitting that you should live, is not your inclination likely,... | |
 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - 1827 - 240 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed...leaves and all 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 620 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed...leaves and all 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... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 pages
...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 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed...leaves and all 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... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and 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... | |
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