 ... 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
 | 1837 - 352 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 beauty fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces. — Jeremy Taylor. 913. The French. — What could... | |
 | 536 pages
...having lost some of its leaves, aud all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces. The same is the portion of every man and every...dishonour; and our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance knows us not ; and thai change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 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, &c. i Dedication to Holy Dying. f Holy Dying. The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...decline to softness and the symptoms of 2'ttlyage; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at agin, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell '4'i the portion of weeds and outworn fences. THe same u the portion of every man and every woman ;... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 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. — Bishop Taylor. 240 THE OCEAN. Original. THE OCEAN. RТ ,•O!:•, E. EDWARDS. Tик moment in... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...to 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.—Biihop Taylor. Original. THE OCEAN. RT jrmv E. EDWARDS. TRE moment in which I caught a first... | |
 | Robert Tyas - Flower language - 1842 - 462 pages
...to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age came on ; it bowed its head and broke its stalk ; and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell with the portion of weeds and outworn faces." Go! lovely rose I Tell her that wastes her time, and... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk; and at uight, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty,...our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly knew us not." ' Independently of their warmth of colouring and poetical embellishments, the productions... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 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 out-worn faces. STRANGE FANCY OF A GERMAN GENTLEMAN. I HAVE read of a fair young German gentleman, who living, often... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1845 - 388 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 outworn faces." And thus it is with every man. " He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were... | |
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