 ... 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
 | 1833 - 336 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 - 1833 - 390 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... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 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." And thus, the inhabitants of the earth pass away to the retirement of the... | |
 | 1833 - 422 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." We should be glad to quote his description of the death bed of the saint... | |
 | Lady Theresa Lewis - 1834 - 362 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 out-worn faces. JEBEMT TAYLOR. A FEW days afterwards, a paragraph appeared in a newspaper,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1834 - 658 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 - 1835 - 550 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... | |
 | 1835 - 334 pages
...and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirement, 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. The same is the portion of every man and every woman : the heritage of worms... | |
 | 1834 - 464 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... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and te 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, isnot Tour inclination likely,... | |
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