 | 1901 - 415 ˹éÒ
...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...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the printless leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize ; And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902
...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...these things with curious eyes, And moralize; And in the wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Such as... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902
...Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No gra2ing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound...I love to view these things with curious eyes, And morali2e ; And in the wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant... | |
 | 1902
...Southey gives the same thought: "Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle, through their prickly round. Can reach...fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear." THE HOLLY. And even though modern scientists may tell us that a sterile soil fosters spinous holly,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902
...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...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 ;... | |
 | David Worth Dennis - 1903 - 170 ˹éÒ
...spines. Southey writes of this tree: "Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear." Spines become gradually larger until we at last begin to call them thorns; but size does not determine;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903
...confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No great benefit on the nation ? We saw — who did unarmed the pointless leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralise :... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902
...confound the Atheist's sophistriei. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...view these things with curious eyes, And moralize j And in the wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme,... | |
 | Johannes Schmidt - 1904 - 100 ˹éÒ
...VIII, "The faded Flower", R. 162. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen, No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear *). Aber obgleich auch der Glanz dieser Stechpalmenblätter nicht heranreicht an das wunderbare Grün... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1904 - 80 ˹éÒ
...to Playford by the footpath— ' Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...as they grow where nothing is to fear. Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear.' lyrists. Now came more sketches from Thackeray, and among them... | |
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