 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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 of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion... | |
 | 1857 - 564 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... | |
 | 1857 - 312 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...softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed its head and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it... | |
 | 1858 - 590 pagina’s
...vigorousness and strong flexures of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and dead paleness—to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days' burial,...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age—it bowed the head and broke the stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pagina’s
...lamb'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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 588 pagina’s
...breath bad forced open its virgin modeety, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirement», it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the Symptoms of a sickly age; it bow«! the head, and broke its eulk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pagina’s
...lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath bad forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to noftness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; It bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and at night,... | |
 | Christian classics, James Hamilton - 1859 - 786 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 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... | |
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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... 
