 | 1800 - 614 ˹éÒ
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 ˹éÒ
...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;... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 ˹éÒ
...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... | |
 | 1816 - 420 ˹éÒ
...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 - 1818 - 354 ˹éÒ
...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 they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unann'd the pointiest leaves appear. the quantity of indifferent matter which he turns out every year,... | |
 | 664 ˹éÒ
...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 - 1821 - 624 ˹éÒ
..." 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...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 - 1821 - 624 ˹éÒ
...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 ˹éÒ
...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 ˹éÒ
...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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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... 
