 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 346 pages
...image of the fading rose, one of the most perfect things in its wording in all our prose literature. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was as fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 516 pages
...childhood, from the vigorousness and strong texture of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror...the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as JEREMY TAYLOR morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece . . . and at night, having... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...which some espy strange things which God intended not, and others see not what God hath plainly told. So have I seen a Rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morn7 ing, and full with the dew of Heaven as a Lamb'sfleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1900 - 496 pages
...sec. ip 267. « Ibid. 267. " Ibid. *68. « Ibid. 269the joints of five and twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror...days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to he very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood,... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 474 pages
...should call attention to itself, that each should be felt only as chiming with the effect of the whole. 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... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1902 - 476 pages
...should call attention to itself, that each should be felt only as chiming with the effect of the whole. 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... | |
 | George Worley - Bishops - 1904 - 294 pages
...his beautiful images which looks very much like an amplification of a verse in The Faery Queene.1 1 " 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1905 - 492 pages
...Burke. "Reckon but from the sprightfulness of youth and the fair checks and full eyes of childhood ... to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days' burial,...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1906 - 486 pages
...horror of a three 1 Holy Dying, ed. Eden, ch. i. sec. ip 267. 8 Ibid 267. 3 Ibid 268. 4 find. 269. days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and veiy strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1907 - 718 pages
...old materials a prose-poem not unworthy to stand beside many a familiar lyric on the same theme.1 '' 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... | |
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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... 
