| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1884 - 400 pagina’s
...is no longer fair on the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece, but ' begins to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age, like the waning life of man.' It is true that these exquisite similes woke the splenetic ridicule of... | |
| Gerald Slade - 1904 - 226 pagina’s
...ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirement, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness,...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... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pagina’s
...fleece ; but when a ruder breath forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful »rd unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age.; it bowed this head and broke its stalk; and, at night, having lost some of iU leaves, and all itx beauty, it... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 pagina’s
...virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and 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... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pagina’s
...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...symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head and broke its stock; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
| Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 pagina’s
...as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude blast had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...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... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pagina’s
...fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthiul and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stock; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 406 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
| Alexander Ireland - 1892 - 16 pagina’s
...and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements it began to put on...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some ot its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
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