 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
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...horror of a three days' burial. For so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood ; at first it was fair as the morning, and full with...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 the stalk, and... | |
 | J. Hughes - 1836 - 204 pages
...her disease often reminded me of the poetic sentiments of Dr. Jer. Taylor; ' So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and decline to softness; it bowed the head, and broke... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...I seen a rose newly springing from the clefls of its I at first it was as fair as the n hood, and i morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's...its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to pat on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head,... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 436 pages
...fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, a. a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder brenth >v x c {| E 8 Nd tHz = Rjl ŀܠ1 l0 o B N X D` b ^ v p ! uuripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and te decline to softness, and the symptoms of a... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1837 - 1130 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,... | |
 | 1837 - 352 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 fresh as the morning, and full of the dews of heaven as a lamb's fleece-— but when a ruder breath... | |
 | 536 pages
...a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." HUMAN FRAILTY. — I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...modesty, 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;... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1839 - 600 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 failas the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but, when a ruder breath had... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1840 - 818 pages
...a rose newly springing from the drftsof its hood, and at first it was fair as the moining, and inil with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a r::er breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and disman~~A in too youthful and unripe retirements,... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...the world. Juliet, Wtllcounly, III., 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... | |
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