 ... 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
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...and dismantled its too youthiul 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 stock; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 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 out-worn faces. The same is the por. tion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 582 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...stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves nnd all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1892 - 16 pages
...had 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...and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some ot its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." Are not writers... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1893 - 632 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 passage, full of exquisitely personal observation, may be left to sing... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 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...and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all iU beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. So does the fairest beauty change,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 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 stock ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of... | |
 | 1895 - 416 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. JEREMY TAYLOR. ALL the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying :... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age : 3. It bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and, at night,...leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. 4. The same is the portion of every man and every woman. 5. For all flesh... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 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. REMEDIES AGAINST IMPATIENCE... | |
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