 | 1864 - 742 Seiten
...some degree to illustrate the style of th<poet in this species of composition : — O reader ! bast thou ever stood to see The holly tree ? The eye that...leaves • Order'd by an intelligence so wise, As might confouud the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circlin? fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1864 - 186 Seiten
...afterwards this was scraped away, first with his pocket-knife, and then with a piece of broken glass. " 0, reader ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree...contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves — Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. " Below a circling... | |
 | 1864 - 422 Seiten
...them. This is the spirit which every young person ought to show. — Every Day Duty. THE HOLLY TREE. 0 READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree...contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves, Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence... | |
 | 1864 - 206 Seiten
...shall you speak of vanished things, To living hearts of mine. SIARY HOWITT. THE HOLLY TREE. O READER I hast thou ever stood to see The Holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well pereeives Its glossy leaves, Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...growing palisade : Whose numerous leaves such orient green invest, — continued. O reader ; hast then ever stood to see The holly tree ? The eye that contemplates...Its glossy leaves ; Order'd by an intelligence so wide As might confound an Atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence its leaves axe seen Wrinkled... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 Seiten
...others, yet it is most troublesome to him that hath it. Jeremy Taylor. THE HOLLY TREE. READER! hast them 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 Seiten
...afford no other trace Than this, — THERE LIVED A MAN ! 40 James Montgomery. CLXXIII THE HOLLY TREE. 0 Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly Tree?...that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise, 5 As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1869 - 298 Seiten
...refuge ? Southey has well spoken of the peculiarity in the foliation of the Holly, asking,— " Oh reader! hast thou ever stood to see the Holly Tree...contemplates it well perceives its glossy leaves, Ordered by an Intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. " Below, a circling... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 Seiten
...thou the same. Robert Southey: 1774-1843. The Hotty Tree. 1. 0 reader ! hast thou ever stood to sec 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. 2. Below, a circling... | |
 | Elizabeth Warren - 1870 - 326 Seiten
...into a graver mood, he repeated aloud the last piece of poetry he had learned. "THE HOLLY TREE. " 0 reader ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree...contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves, Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. " Below a circling... | |
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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. 
