 O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly Tree ? The eye 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...  Joan of Arc, and minor poems - Էջ 336Robert Southey - 1854 - 469 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 664 էջ
...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 is to fear, Smooth aiid uuann'd the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 էջ
...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...wound ; But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, floating subcoriaceous ovato-lanceolate tapering into a rather short footstalk, lower ones long lanceolate... | |
 | William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 էջ
...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...cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; Kut, as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leave* appear," &o.... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 էջ
...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...cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound; Hut, as they grow where nothing is to four, floating subcoriaceous ovato-lanceolate tapering into a... | |
 | 1830 - 492 էջ
...confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; Ko grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...these things with curious eyes, And moralize : And in this wisdom of the Holly-Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which... | |
 | 1843 - 684 էջ
...As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. " Behold a circling fence its leaves are seen Wrinkling and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly...fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear.' BRIEF ASTRONOMICAL NOTICES, I'OR OCTOBER, 1846. BY Mu. WILLIAM ROGERSON.O/ the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 258 էջ
...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 in this wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see . Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 էջ
...confound the atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; Xo grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unanned the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize : And... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 էջ
...on its admiration, and substantiate repeated claims to its applause and gratitude. THE HOLLY TREE. " Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. So, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere,... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 էջ
...Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Its glossy leaves Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. SOUTHEY. 106 CHAPTER IV. OF THE LEAF. A PERFECT knowledge of the... | |
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