... 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
| Norman Macleod - 1857 - 200 pages
...when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, 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 its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
| 1861 - 392 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."* The picture of man's earthly life may thus be pourtrayed. And we cannot... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 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...having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fefl into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to noftness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; It bowed the head,...having lost some of Its leaves, and all its beauty, it foil into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces. The emtne Is the portion of every man and every... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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 the head and broke its sialk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 588 pages
...and to decline to softness and the Symptoms of a sickly age; it bow«! the head, and broke its eulk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty. It ftll into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces. The •иле is tho portion of every man and every... | |
| 1858 - 588 pages
...and dismantled its youthful and uuripe 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 its leaves, and all its beauty, fell into the portion... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1861 - 478 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... | |
| 1861 - 526 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. * • * « • [Shall I not quote further than my need requires of this striking... | |
| John Angell James - 1862 - 488 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, aud 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." Jeremy Taylor's " Holy Dying.." But besides, admitting that you should live,... | |
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