 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 páginas
...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,...The same is the portion of every man and every woman ; 2But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - 1867 - 292 páginas
...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,...fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces." You must have noticed similes of all kinds, some of them of equal beauty and force, in the great classical... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1869 - 268 páginas
...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,...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 discoursings,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1869 - 166 páginas
...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,...our beauty so changed that our acquaintance quickly know us not ; and that change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and ' weak... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.) - 1869 - 144 páginas
...began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age, till at night, having lost some of its leaves and all its beauty, it fell into the portion of weeds and worn-out faces.' Now the thought here is obvious enough, not to say commonplace. The comparison of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 páginas
...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,...changed, that our acquaintance quickly knew us not ; and th2t change mingled with so much horror, or else meets so with our fears and weak discoursings,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 páginas
...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 Iwrtion of weeds and outworn fuces. The same is the portion of everv man and everv woman, the heritage... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 254 páginas
...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,...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 - 562 páginas
...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,...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 páginas
...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... | |
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... 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 age; it... 
