O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled... A Ramble in the Woods - Page 69by George Mogridge - 1840Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1800 - 614 pages
...fophiuries. II. ' Below, a circling fence, its leaves ars feen. Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Can reach to wound, But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointlefs leavfcs appear. III. ' I love to view thefe things with curious eyes And moralize... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1799 - 320 pages
...Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist* sophistries. IL Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Can reach to wound, III. I love to view these things with curious eye* And... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 612 pages
...fophlftrics. II. 1 Below, a circling fence, its leaves ars feeji Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Can reach to wound, But as they grow where nothing is ttt fear, Smooth and unarm'd (he pointlefs leaves appear. • III. ' I love to view thefe things with... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sopliistries. Its glossy leaves ' Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Can reach to wound, But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and... | |
| Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 224 pages
...well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheists sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle thro1 their prickly round I love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize ! And in the wisdom... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...that contemplates it well perceive* Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wrse, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling...leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves, Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointlese leaves appear. - • - • ~" --.,-•• 4 - -г ¡¡П ТО* '393* • ftPge... | |
| 1821 - 702 pages
...that contemplates it well, perceives IU glossy leaves, Order'd by an Intelligence so wise. As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below a circling...leaves are seen, Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Cut reach to wound ; Bat, as they grow where nothing is to fear. Smooth and... | |
| 664 pages
...that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves, Order'd by an Intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled and keen, T>io grazing cattle thro' their prickly round tfan reach to wound ; But, as they grow where nothing... | |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botanic - 1821 - 624 pages
...that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves ; Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling...wound ; But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, floating subcoriaceous ovato-lanceolate tapering into a rather short footstalk, lower ones long lanceolate... | |
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