 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 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... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1899 - 378 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 sank into the portion... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1900 - 496 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1900 - 496 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...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the bead, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell... | |
 | Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 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... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1902 - 476 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 Sears Baldwin - 1902 - 474 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 444 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 Worley - 1904 - 268 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 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... 
