 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
 | Frances Sargent Osgood - Flower language - 1848 - 308 pages
...decay of 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 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 fair as the morning, and full of the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and тег/ strange. But so have I seen a rose boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long su u the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as » lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1850 - 496 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 morning, and full with the * [The allusions are to Fabius Praetor, 12. § 8.) See Life of Christ, part ill. (Pliny, Nat. hist.... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...burial, and wo 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,...lamb's fleece, but when a ruder breath had forced open ita virgin modesty, and dismantled its fco youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness,... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 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,...fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, aa a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its... | |
 | Christian literature, American - 1850 - 790 pages
...illustrate some substance which was fleeting ; and of the rose he would say : " Lo,I have seen a rose, newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with 5 the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece, but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 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...as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as the lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1847 - 490 pages
...distance to be very great and very \ strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts I of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the " [The allusions are to Fabins Praetor, 12. § 8.) See Life of Christ, part ill. (Pliny, Nat. hist.... | |
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