 | 1832 - 206 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,...the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, * It is remarkable, that while Roses abound in almost all parta of the northern hemisphere, they have... | |
 | 1833 - 422 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...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... | |
 | 1833 - 336 sider
...as 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...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1833 - 390 sider
...as 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...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 sider
...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...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." And thus, the inhabitants of the earth pass away to the retirement of the grave, " where the wicked... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1834 - 658 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...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness... | |
 | Lady Theresa Lewis - 1834 - 362 sider
...fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb fleece ; but when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 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...lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell, &c. * Dedication to Holy Dying. t Holy Dying. The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1835 - 550 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...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman; the heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness... | |
 | 1834 - 464 sider
...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...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness... | |
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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... 
