 | 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... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1929 - 376 pages
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 | William Hazlitt - 1931 - 422 pages
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 | 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... | |
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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... 
