 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...  Sketches of rural affairs - Page 291by Sketches - 1848 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 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... | |
 | 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 - 1800 - 318 pages
...are seea Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Can reach to wound, . III. I love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize ; And in the wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Such as... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pages
...circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round I love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize ! And in the wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Such as... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pages
...Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wrse, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...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...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unann'd the pointiest leaves appear. the quantity of indifferent matter which he turns out every year,... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...IU 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, No grazing cattle thro' their prickly round Cut reach to wound ; Bat, as they grow where nothing is to fear. Smooth and... | |
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