 ... 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 - Side 9af Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1814Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 sider
...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 dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 452 sider
...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 dust." All present were exceedingly affected; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 454 sider
...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 dust." All present were exceedingly affected ; but I thought it became me, in these moments of entering... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 412 sider
...the fymptoms of a fickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its ftalk, and at night, having loft fome of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The fame is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and ferpents, rottennefs and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 sider
...fome of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces. The fame is the portion of every man and every woman ; the heritage of worms and ferpents, rottennefs and cold difhonour, and our beauty fo changed, that our acquaintance quickly know... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 sider
...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, &c. * Holy Dying, ch. i. t Dedication to Holy Dying, The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sider
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry...well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, knew us not ; and that change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sider
...decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and d knew us not ; and that change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 sider
...sickly age ; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk ; and at night, having lost some of its leaven, Saturn laugh' d and leap'd with m»n and every woman ; the heritage of worms and setpente, rottenness and cold dishonour, and our beauty... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 sider
...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," &c. SHAKSPEAKE. " Then think no more of me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the sullen passing-bell... | |
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