 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 pages
...fo I have feen a rofe newly fpringDe Ufu Partium. iii. ing from the clefts of his hood, and at firft 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 modefty, and difmantled its too... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-andtwenty, to the hollowness and deadly ! that falsely thus comply'st With man ; Tain man...wares, whose greatest treasure II dross and trash t The a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-andtwcuty, to the hollowness and deadly sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile,...pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1847 - 434 pages
...and very ftrange. But fo have I feen a Rofe newly fpringing from the clefts of its hood, and at firft 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 modefty, and difmantled its too... | |
 | Frances Sargent Osgood - Flower language - 1848 - 308 pages
...growth and decay of human beauty, is exhibited in the following lines by Jeremy Taylor: "But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its...as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its modesty, and dismantled its youthful retirement,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror...distance to be very great and very strange. But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-andtwenty, to the hollowncss and deadly ] US 7/ Rw3, тег/ strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1850 - 496 pages
...childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror...first it was fair as the morning, and full with the * [The allusions are to Fabius Praetor, 12. § 8.) See Life of Christ, part ill. (Pliny, Nat. hist.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Christian life - 1850 - 300 pages
...to be very great and very strange. But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of his 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollownessand deadly paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three...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... | |
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... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. 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... 
