| 1820 - 856 pages
...adversity? ' As, the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is...ordered by providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...of adversity. As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is...ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...of adversity. As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is...ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...of adversity. As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is...ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...of adversity. As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is...ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
| Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...many years! — Lon. pa. As the vine which has long twined its foliage around the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling around it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its scattered boughs; so it is bountifully ordered... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...adversity. As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it in sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
| Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...of adversity. As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is...mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hoars, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...— IB. 2. As the vine', which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak', and been lifted by it into sunshine', will', -when the hardy plant...ordered by Providence', that woman', who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours', should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...adversity. As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it in sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by...ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
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