| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...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 unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. ' I love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize;... | |
| English literature - 1800 - 614 pages
...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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 612 pages
...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... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...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...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. SOUTHED. * The HOLLY, ilex aquifolium (to quote the elegant language of Dr. Aikin), grows native in... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. the quantity of indifferent matter which he turns out every year,... | |
| 664 pages
...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 - Botanic - 1821 - 624 pages
...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...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 - Plants - 1821 - 624 pages
...are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing 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. floating subcoriaceous ovato-lanceolate tapering into a rathei short footstalk,... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. " Behold a circling fence its leaves are seen Wrinkling and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear.' BRIEF ASTRONOMICAL NOTICES, I'OR OCTOBER, 1846. BY Mu. WILLIAM... | |
| 1830 - 492 pages
...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...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize :... | |
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