 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
....dew of heaven, as the 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. So does the fairest beauty change, and it will be as bad with you and me ; and then... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 602 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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 598 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 darkness, and to decline to soft. ness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night,... | |
 | John Angell James - Children - 1827 - 196 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,...fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces."* But besides, admitting that you should live, is not your inclination likely, if possible, to be less... | |
 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - Death - 1827 - 240 pages
...when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline...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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 620 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,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1828 - 514 pages
...retirements, it begins to decline to the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bows the head and breaks the stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, falls into the lap of noisome weeds."§ • Oemelli, vol. v. Nspoli, 1/08. • Agellina, lib. iii.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Christianity - 1831 - 240 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,... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...than by Bishop Jeremy Taylor, when he compares its charms and fleeting existence to the life of man. " But so I have seen a Rose newly springing from the...the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, * It is remarkable, that while Roses abound in almost all parta of the northern hemisphere, they have... | |
 | 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, "... | |
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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... 
