| 1820 - 856 pages
...bitterest blasts 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...caressing^ tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...bitterest blasts 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...caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...bitterest blasts 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...caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...bitterest blasts 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...caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...bitterest blasts 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...caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 426 pages
...living years. BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. "As the vine, which has long twined its folinge around the oak, and been lifted by it into sun-shine, will, when the hardy plant is rilled by the thunderbolt, cling around it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its scattered boughs;... | |
| Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...record for 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...caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...bitterest blasts 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...caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Beautiful Simile, — 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...caressing tendrils', and bind up its shattered boughs'; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence', that woman', who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
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