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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... "
Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip ... - Page 59
edited by - 1869
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

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...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

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;...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 28

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...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

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...nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. SOUTHED. * The HOLLY, ilex aquifolium (to quote the elegant language of Dr. Aikin),...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointlese leaves appear. - • - • ~" --.,-•• 4 - -г กกП ТО* '393* • ftPge...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 3

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...
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Flora Scotica; Or, a Description of Scottish Plants: Arranged Both According ...

Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botanic - 1821 - 624 pages
...intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through...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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Flora Scotica, Or, a Description of Scotish Plants Arranged Both ..., Volume 2

William Jackson Hooker - Plants - 1821 - 624 pages
...intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves 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....
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Flora Scotica; Or, a Description of Scottish Plants: Arranged Both According ...

Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botanic - 1821 - 624 pages
...intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its -leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing 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...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 7

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...
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