 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of flve-and-twenty, to the hollowness and deadly paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-and-twenty, to the hollowness and deadly paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days' burial, and wo shall perceive the distance to 'be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...from the vigorousness and strong flexures of the joints of five and twenty, to the hollownese and deed paleness — to the loathsomeness and horror of a...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
...from the vigorouanese and strong flexure of the joints of nve-audtwenty, to the hollowness and deadly paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a three...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
...shadow to 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...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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - Confirmation - 1853 - 348 pages
...but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, to the state of a three days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. The time will come when those eyes, with which thou readest this, shall lose their sight ; those hands... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1853 - 404 pages
...but from the sprightfulness of youth, and the fair cheeks and full eyes of childhood, to the state of a three days' burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. The time will come when those eyes, with which thou readest this, shall lose their sight; those hands... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1847 - 490 pages
...the hollowness and dead paleness, to the loathsomeness and horror of a tliree days' burial, and._we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very...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... | |
 | 1854 - 738 pages
...from the vigorousness and strong flexure of the joints of five-andt « cut v — to the hollowncss and dead paleness — to the loathsomeness and horror of a three days' burial, and we ehall perceive the distance to be very greet and very strange. But so have I sec:, a rose new springing... | |
 | Frederick William Shelton - 1908 - 630 pages
...shadow to 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...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... | |
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... 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 dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but when... 
