... 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
| Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 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 it is with every man. " He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower;... | |
| Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 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 dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 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. STRANGE FANCY OF A GERMAN GENTLEMAN. I HAVE read of a fair young German gentleman,... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 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... | |
| Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 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. * Holy Dying, ch. i. t Dedication to Holy Dying, The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkucis, ar.cl to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk; and at uight, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 pages
...the fymptoms of a fickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its ftalk, and at night, having loft fome of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The fame is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to ould, Kendall and Lincoln"% Chambers Robert" Robert Chambers( 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.) - 1847 - 434 pages
...the fymptoms of a fickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its ftalk, and at night, having loft fome of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The fame is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms... | |
| Frances Sargent Osgood - 1848 - 308 pages
...to put on darkness, and decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age came on ; it bowed its head and broke its stalk : and at night having lost some of it leaves, and all its beauty, it fell with the portion of weeds and outworn faces." I pray thee do... | |
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