 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
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 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 it is with every man. " He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 pages
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude 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 dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 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. * Holy Dying, ch. i. t Dedication to Holy Dying, The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 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 and ferpents,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 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, 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, Ӏ t ҂ outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | 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 and ferpents,... | |
 | Frances Sargent Osgood - Flower language - 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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. SHAKSPEAKE. " Then think no more of me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the sullen passing-bell... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...the dew of heaven, as » lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its stalk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaven, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion... | |
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