 But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, 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...  Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 44by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." We should be glad to quote his description of the death bed of the saint and sinner,... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 336 pages
...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,...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 and serpents,... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...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,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." And thus, the inhabitants of the earth pass away to the retirement of the grave, "... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1834 - 658 pages
...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,...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 and serpents,... | |
 | Lady Theresa Lewis - Children's literature, English - 1834 - 362 pages
...fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb fleece ; but when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces. JEBEMT TAYLOR. A FEW days afterwards, a paragraph appeared in a newspaper, which afforded... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...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,...lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell, &c. * Dedication to Holy Dying. t Holy Dying. The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Christian life - 1835 - 550 pages
...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,...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 and serpents,... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...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,...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 and serpents,... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to pat on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms...fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces."* But besides, admitting that you should live, is not TOUT inclination likely, if possible, to be less... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...cut down, with the " fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood ;" and says : — when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all of its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn out faces." Throughout moat of Taylor's figures... | |
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