 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...  The R.I. Schoolmaster - Page 1501861Full view - About this book
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 pages
...the world. Juliet, Wtll county, 111., May 25, 1841. DEATH TYPIFIED BY A ROSE. So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and,...first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dews of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and... | |
 | Robert Tyas - Flower language - 1842 - 462 pages
...human beauty, is exhibited in the following lines by Jeremy Taylor : — " But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood : and,...the dew of Heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its modesty, and dismantled its youthful retirement, it began to put on... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose, newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkucis, ar.cl to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 pages
...! so young, so early lost !" And then she read aloud from her book — " But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 454 pages
...Charles ! so young, so early lost !" And then she read aloud from her book — "But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 pages
...! so young, so early lost !" And then she read aloud from her book — " But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 412 pages
...fo I have feen a rofe newly fpringDe Ufu Partium. iii. ing from the clefts of his hood, and at firft it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew...but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modefty, and difmantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darknefs, and to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 232 pages
...burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange, But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the nforning, and full with the dew of heaven, as the lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1845 - 312 pages
...burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was as fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece : but when a ruder breath... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1847 - 434 pages
...and very ftrange. But fo have I feen a Rofe newly fpringing from the clefts of its hood, and at firft it was fair as the Morning, and full with the dew...but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modefty, and difmantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darknefs, and to... | |
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