 ... 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
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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...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 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April,...trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, Th leaven, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1850 - 300 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 out-worn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1850 - 494 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and innpe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to •ottness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and jroke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its ieauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | 1851 - 608 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. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...dismantled its fco 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, and 462 SIB THOMAS BROWNE. [Lecr. XX. broke its stalk; and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 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 the head, and 462 SIR THOMAS BROWNB. [LECr. XX. broke its stalk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...and dismantled its 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 and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of it« leave«, and all its beauty, fell into the portion... | |
 | 1850 - 790 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...some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell."' If such process as we have mentioned be the secret key which opened to him his treasures, it does not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 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 out-worn faces. So does the fairest beauty change, and it will be as bad with you and me... | |
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