 ... 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 and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly...  The rule and exercises of holy dying - Pagina 9di Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1814Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pagine
...to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed tho head and broke its stalk; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The same is tho portion of every man and every woman ; tho heritage of worms and serpents, rottenness and cold... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pagine
...symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk; and at night. 185 FROM 1625 TO 1689; having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty,...our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly knew us not; and that change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pagine
...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age : it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpents,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1877 - 472 pagine
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; . it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its...our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly knew us not ; and that change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 278 pagine
...to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves and all its...same is the portion of every man and every woman. ******* Eternal God, Almighty Father of men and angels, by whose care and providence I am preserved... | |
 | Anna Buckland - 1882 - 548 pagine
...to decl1ne to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." The following is another illustration of the rise and setting of a man's life, full of tender beauty :... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pagine
...decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of the weeds and worn-out faces. The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of... | |
 | Anna Jane Buckland - 1882 - 544 pagine
...to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the pSrtion of weeds and outworn faces." The following is another illustration of the rise and setting... | |
 | William Walters - 1883 - 208 pagine
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." Some live to opening manhood or womanhood, and then in the midst of plans and hopes are called away.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 492 pagine
...its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces. Tlie мате is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and serpent», rottenness and cold dishonour, and our beauty so changed, that our acquaintance quickly... | |
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