 ... 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
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed tho head and broke its stalk; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is tho portion of every man and every woman ; tho heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness and cold... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk; and at night. 185 FROM 1625 TO 1689; having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty,...our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly knew us not; and that change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 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,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 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...our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly knew us not ; and that change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - English literature - 1882 - 278 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...same is the portion of every man and every woman. ******* Eternal God, Almighty Father of men and angels, by whose care and providence I am preserved... | |
 | Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 548 pages
...to decl1ne 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...into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." The following is another illustration of the rise and setting of a man's life, full of tender beauty :... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 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 the weeds and worn-out faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of... | |
 | Anna Jane Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 544 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 into the pSrtion of weeds and outworn faces." The following is another illustration of the rise and setting... | |
 | William Walters - Christian life - 1883 - 208 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." Some live to opening manhood or womanhood, and then in the midst of plans and hopes are called away.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces. Tlie мате is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpent», rottenness and cold dishonour, and our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly... | |
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