 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1719 - 648 sider
...Retirements, it began to put on Darknefs, and to decline to Softnefs^ and the Symptoms of a ficklyAge: It bowed the Head, and broke its Stalk, and at Night having loft fome of its Leaves, and all itsBeau»y, it fell into the Portion of Weeds and worn-out Faces.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 sider
...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,...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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 sider
...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,...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,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 sider
....tntl disits too youthi'ul and uniij>e7etorenien«e, v{-beg»u in pat«a darkness, and to decline tcr softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed...leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of tveedi and out-worn faces. * When the sentence of death is decreed, and- begins to be put in execution,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sider
...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...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the Lead, and Jjroke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 sider
...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...put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the MAY. THOMAS MAY, poet and historian, was descended of an ancient family at Mayfield, in Sussex, and... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sider
...modesty, and dismantled its too yo.ithful and unripe retireaients, it began to pu!. on .-l,i;;, ness, and to decline to softness and th-e symptoms of a sickly age ; ft bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 sider
...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...leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion qf weeds and out-worn faces. On the gradual Progress of Man's Reason. A third part of our life is spent... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1814 - 392 sider
...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...sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, end at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds... | |
 | 1817 - 494 sider
...the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had farced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces.' — JEREMY TAYLOR'. 1 The beautiful and well known lines of Cowper, ' The rost had been washed, just... | |
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... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. 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... 
