 ... 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 youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly...  The rule and exercises of holy dying - Page 9by Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." We should be glad to quote his description of the death bed of the saint and sinner, and many other... | |
 | Lady Theresa Lewis - Children's literature, English - 1834 - 362 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all...fell into the portion of weeds and out-worn faces. JEBEMT TAYLOR. A FEW days afterwards, a paragraph appeared in a newspaper, which afforded the duchess... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness and cold dishonor; and our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly know us not ; and that change mingled... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 334 pages
...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman : the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." What pen has uttered sweeter things on children, or the delights of the domestic hearth. His sermon... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Authors, English - 1836 - 422 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." What pen has uttered sweeter things on children, or the delights of the domestic hearth. His sermon... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces."* But besides, admitting that you should live, is not TOUT inclination likely, if possible,... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces."* But besides, admitting that you should live, isnot Tour inclination likely, if possible,... | |
 | J. Hughes - 1836 - 204 pages
...retirements, it began to put on darkness, and decline to softness; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds.' The general character of her religious experience was joyous. "There was an occasional gloom, which... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1837 - 1130 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and dust." All present were exceedingly affected ; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
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