 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
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of his hood, and at first it was fair as the moruing, 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,... | |
 | Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 548 pages
...part; it is an illustration of the blossoming and decay of human life: — "But 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 to decl1ne to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk, and at... | |
 | Anna Jane Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 544 pages
...part; it is an illustration of the blossoming and decay of human life: — "But so have I seen a rose, newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retiremerits, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...it is not at all. —Dr. OWRN. Fraalty. — Human I have seen a rose newly springing from the ckfts of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning,...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pages
...burial, and we shall perceive the distance to Ъе 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 tho morning, and full with tho dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece : hut when a ruder breath had forced... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Great Britain - 1884 - 410 pages
...dole-gift, and, looking sadly on the coffin, she read aloud from her book — " But so I have seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and at...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,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1884 - 400 pages
...is no longer fair on the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece, but ' begins to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age, like the waning life of man.' It is true that these exquisite similes woke the splenetic ridicule of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1884 - 400 pages
...is the prayer of a good man. " A third is the rich painting of a rose when it is no longer fair on the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece, but ' begins to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age, like the... | |
 | Gerald Slade - 1904 - 226 pages
...Bourney Parish, Diocese of Killaloe. Miss CHARLOTTE WHITE, YORK STREET, DUBLIN. You have seen the rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood ; and...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...intellect. Dr. South. BODY— Frailty of the. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the depths of its hood, and at first it was fair as the morning,...heaven as a lamb's fleece ; but when a ruder breath forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful ğrd unripe retirements, it began to... | |
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