 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1919 - 498 หน้า
...educational mission and beating out on his moral cash register the following inane and goody-goody jingle: I love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize, And in this wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the... | |
 | 1900 - 478 หน้า
...confound an 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 pointless leaves appear. — Southey. SOME FAMILIAR TREES The Elm. — Nobody knows New... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 หน้า
...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...curious eyes, And moralize: And in this wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1928 - 374 หน้า
...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 thing* with curious eyes, And moralize ;... | |
 | 1924 - 978 หน้า
...measure of defence, as Southey pointed out in verse a hundred years ago, while on the upper branches, Where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. The prickly holly is called ' he-holly ' by the country-folk, and the smooth-leaved is called ' she-holly,'... | |
 | John Manning - 2004 - 404 หน้า
...Prickling-Guard. Southey's emblematic vision of the world is explicitly stated in the third stanza of his poem: I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize: And in this wisdom of the Holly Tree Can emblems see ... These emblems provide the substance for his rhyme, and yield some profitable... | |
 | Alexander Porteous - 2005 - 325 หน้า
...caEed " The Holly Tree." He writes : " Below a curling 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." Thorns, etc., are credited with having a certain magic power... | |
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Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen; No grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; But as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. 
