 | William Minto - 1892 - 584 pagina’s
...open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put un darkness, and 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 portion... | |
 | 1922 - 550 pagina’s
...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 darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptons of a sickly age; it bowed its head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1893 - 632 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pagina’s
...the 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 iU beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 pagina’s
...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 ]ost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1894 - 448 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1895 - 416 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pagina’s
...full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; 2. But when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age : 3. It bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves and all... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 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... | |
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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... 
