 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pagina’s
...Iamb's fleece ; but when the 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 sialk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | 1861 - 552 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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1897 - 600 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1861 - 478 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... | |
 | 1861 - 392 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... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - 486 pagina’s
...virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, aud 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... | |
 | 1862 - 978 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 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pagina’s
...Iamb's fleece; but when the 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pagina’s
...lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced upon its virgin modesty, and dismantled ils too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed ihe head, and broke its stalk; and, at night, having lost tome of its leaves and ail its beauty, Amené... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pagina’s
...a lamb's Qeece ; but when a ruder breath had forced upon ils virgin modestv, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on...darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a siokly age : it bowed ihe head, and broke its stalk; and, at night, having lost some of its leaves... | |
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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... 
