 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 when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful...  English Prose: Selections - Pagina 468geredigeerd door - 1893Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pagina’s
...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...as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as the lamb's fleece ; but when the ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pagina’s
...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...fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, 5\s \\w 224 TAYLOR. [CHARLES n. Iamb's fleece ; but when the ruder breath had forced open its virgin... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1861 - 478 pagina’s
...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 * Ant ubi mors non est, si jugulatis aqvus? — Mart. [lib. iv. ep. 18. p. 225.] 1 [The allusions are... | |
 | 1862 - 978 pagina’s
...most of the flower as the emblem of human life. " So have I seen a rose newly springing from the cleft of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning,...to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and then symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and at night, having lost some... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - 486 pagina’s
...your constitution, from the melancholy change produced by decay and death ? " So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was as fair as the moruing, aud full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath... | |
 | Frances Sargent Locke Osgood - 1863 - 310 pagina’s
...decay of human beauty, is exhibited in the following lines by Jeremy Taylor: "But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood : and...the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a iamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its modesty, and dismantled its youthful retirement,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pagina’s
...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...as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as the Iamb's fleece; but when the ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pagina’s
...very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at lirst, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew...lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced upon its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pagina’s
...burial, and we shall percoive ihe d stance 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 thé morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's Qeece ; but when a ruder breath had forced... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pagina’s
...burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I uren a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as the 224 TAYLOR. [CHARLES n. Iamb's fleecj ; but when the ruder breath h_d forced open its virgin modesty,... | |
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