 | Theology - 1862 - 978 pages
...most of the flower as the emblem of human life. " So have I seen a rose newly springing from the cleft 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... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - 486 pages
...security in the vigour of your constitution, from the melancholy change produced by decay and death ? " So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was as fair as the moruing, aud full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...childhood, from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints o\ five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror...the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as the Iamb's fleece; but when the ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror, of a three days' burial, and we shall percoive ihe d stance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen...clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as thé morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's Qeece ; but when a ruder breath had forced... | |
 | Frances Sargent Locke Osgood - Flower language - 1863 - 310 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 iamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its modesty, and dismantled its youthful retirement,... | |
 | Anna Jane Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 544 pages
...of the rose to the latter part; it is an illustration of the blossoming and decay of human life: — "But so have I seen a rose, newly springing from the...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... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...it is not at all. —Dr. OWRN. Fraalty. — Human I have seen a rose newly springing from the ckfts 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... | |
 | William Walters - Christian life - 1883 - 208 pages
...all events, they survive not the season of childhood. " So I have seen a rose," says JEREMY TAYLOR, " newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and,...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...three-days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to Ъе 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 tho morning, and full with tho dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece : hut when a ruder breath had forced... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1884 - 400 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...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... | |
| |
... 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... 
