 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 856 pages
...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 youthful and unripe retirements,...leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weed and outworn faces." Of the two works 'Holy Living* is on the whole less interesting from the literary... | |
 | English literature - 1920 - 508 pages
...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath hath forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces^j)The same is the portion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 272 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 decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head and broke its stalk, and at... | |
 | American fiction - 1922 - 550 pages
...the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had .... dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptons of a sickly age; it bowed its head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of... | |
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 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 outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman. . . . THOMAS FULLER (1608-61).... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 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,...darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of sickly age ; it bowed its head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and... | |
 | American literature - 1858 - 912 pages
...changed ! " So have I seen a rose," says that Shakspeare of the pulpit, old Jeremy Taylor, when it has " bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and at night,...having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it has fallen into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." Alas, Farewell, and Nevermore sighed from... | |
 | William P Dunn - 1950 - 193 pages
...bone," or "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"; or Taylor's fading rose — "it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night,...its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces"; or Herrick's "To Daffodils" — Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Religion - 1990 - 548 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 darknesse, and to decline to softnesse, and the symptomes of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke... | |
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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... 
