 | 1840 - 368 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...curious eyes, And moralize : And in this wisdom of the holly-tree Can emblems see Wherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in... | |
 | 1840 - 378 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...these things with curious eyes, And moralize : And iu this wisdom of the holly-tree Can emblems see Wherewith, perchance, to make a pleasant rhyme, One... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1840 - 136 pages
...Its elcwsy leaves, Orderd by an Intelligence so wise, AH im:'l)t confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unharmed the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize;... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 304 pages
...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. SOUTHEY. THE HYACINTH. girl in the north of Ireland. We agree with him in saying (if that statement... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1842 - 462 pages
...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...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and uuarm'd the pointless leaves appear. FORGET-ME-NOT. MYOSOTIS, OR MOUSE-EAR.60 — MYOSOTIS SCOKF1OIDES.... | |
 | Juvenile miscellany - 1842 - 368 pages
...mentioned by the poet Southey:— " Below a circling fence its leaves are seen, Wrinkled and green; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear." " Nothing can be more beautiful than a fullgrown holly tree in... | |
 | 1843 - 488 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...fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. THE HOLI.Y. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize; And in this wisdom of the... | |
 | Sights - 1844 - 104 pages
...As might confound the atheist's sophistries. " Below a circling fence its leaves are seen, Wrinkling and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly...Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear.'* In the first rank of our evergreens the holly-tree may stand, arrayed in its polished and glassy leaves.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 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...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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 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... | |
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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. 
