... 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
| 1862 - 978 pages
...youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and then symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke...leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn foes. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pages
...began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a siokly age : it bowed ihe head, and broke its stalk; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and ail its beauty, Amené là, comme Hamlet au cimetière, parmi les crânes qu'il reconnaît et sous... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed ihe head, and broke its stalk; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and ail its beauty, Amené là, comme Hamlet au cimetière, parmi les crânes qu'il reconnaît et sous... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 634 pages
...too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and Wie symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and...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... | |
| Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 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 the weeds and worn-out faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of... | |
| Anna Buckland - 1882 - 564 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 following is another illustration of the rise and setting of a man's... | |
| Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 254 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. ******* Eternal God,... | |
| Anna Jane Buckland - 1882 - 544 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retiremerits, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed...of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the pSrtion of weeds and outworn faces." The following is another illustration of the rise and setting... | |
| William Walters - 1883 - 208 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." Some live to opening manhood or womanhood, and then in the midst of plans... | |
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