 | Robert Southey - 1799 - 320 pages
...2?. 5. r. 13 The HOLLY TREE. fy ROBERT S OUT HEY. I. O Reader ! haat thou ever stood to see The Holly Tree ? The eye that contemplates it well perceives...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pages
...ebbing years Then hasten to old age ! The HOLLY TREE. O Reader ! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly Tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pages
...well 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 pages
...tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceive* Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wrse, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below,...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... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...stood to see The Holly Tree ? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives IU glossy leaves, Order'd by an Intelligence so wise. As might confound the...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 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 pages
...This has not escaped the notice of our poet Southey. " O reader! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree?" . The eye that contemplates it well perceives...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... | |
 | William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 pages
...This has not escaped the notice of our poet Southey. " O reader! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives...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.... | |
 | 1830 - 492 pages
...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...circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; Ko grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound; But as they grow where nothing... | |
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The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves, Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. 
