 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...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...I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralise; And in this wisdom of the holly-tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant... | |
 | 1837 - 260 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 unarmed the pointless leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize :... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...wound ; Hut as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize : And in this wisdom of the holly trco Can emblems see 4Vherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme, One which ¡nay profit in tLe... | |
 | 1838 - 950 pages
...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...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralise :... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 pages
...Its glossy leaves Order'd by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. 2. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. 3. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize ; And in this wisdom of the Holly -Tree... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pages
...perceives Its glossy leaves; Order'd by an Intelligence so wise As might confound an atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. OLLYHOCK, or ROSE-MALLOW. /•mi Rosea. Class 16, MONADEWHIA. der: POLYANDRIA. All the world k: this... | |
 | 1839 - 428 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 unarmed the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize :... | |
 | Priscilla Maden Watts - 1839 - 286 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 unarmed the pointless leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralise ;... | |
 | George William Francis - 1839 - 236 pages
...negligence to attention, for it is only on the lower part of the holly trees that the leaves are prickly. " Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm• <1 the pointless leaves appear. ' Thus should my youth, as youth is apt I know Some harshness... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...Its glossy leaves Order'd hy 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 unarm 'd the pointless leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize :... | |
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Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. 
