 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
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...burial, and we «hall 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 too... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 548 pages
...as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced upon its virgin moclesty, and dismantled ils too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to décline to softness and thé symptoms of a sickly âge : it bowed thé head, and broke its stalk;... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1876 - 472 pages
...springing . _ . 1 1 Holy Dying, ed. Kdcn, ch. i. sec. ip 267. » Ibid. 167. « Ibid. 268. * HM. =69. from the clefts of its hood, and at first it was fair...dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it begun lo put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the... | |
 | Henry Christmas - 1878 - 346 pages
...to have become common property, and make them his own. Listen to this : — " So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...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 its stalk ; and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 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...the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a L>mb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled ita too... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 418 pages
...present silence to be the harbinger of future praise.« The decline of life. — So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...heaven, as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath has forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirement, it began... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 pages
...valley." His description of the change after death can never be forgotten. " So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb-fleece ; but, when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...elaborate one from Jeremy Taylor : — " So have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of his hood ; and at first it was fair as the morning, and...the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a rude beauty had forced open its virgin modesty and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...distance to he very great and rery utrsnge. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the cliCU of its hood. and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full H'ifb toe dew of hearer., as a lamb's 4eeee ; but when a rudc:r breath had forced open its virgin modesty,... | |
 | William Minto - Authors, English - 1881 - 634 pages
...great and very strange. Bnt so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of his hood, and xt first it was fair as the morning, and full with 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,... | |
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