 | 1800 - 614 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 664 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
