 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
 | Richard Watson - Methodist Church - 1821 - 264 pages
...with the kisses of the sun," and speaks of the " Rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece," &c. than instructed by the steady light of devotion and holiness, which he everywhere holds up to direct... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 598 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,...retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to soft. ness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and, at night,... | |
 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - Death - 1827 - 240 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...virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a... | |
 | John Angell James - Children - 1827 - 198 pages
...your constitution from the melancholy change produced by decay and death ? " So have I 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... | |
 | 1832 - 206 pages
...when he compares its charms and fleeting existence to the life of man. " But so I have seen a Rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1833 - 390 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 as fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 336 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 as fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath... | |
 | Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...forgiveness, and the blessings of an eternal charity." On early death : " But so have I 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... | |
 | Lady Theresa Lewis - Children's literature, English - 1834 - 362 pages
...CHAP. XIII. So I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hord, and at first it was as fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb fleece ; but when a ruder breath had dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 334 pages
..." obey not God," and reject the salvation proffered by his Son. FRAILTY OF MAN. I HATE 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 virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirement,... | |
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