| William Huffington - Delaware - 1839 - 500 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 ordained by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| Periodicals - 1839 - 272 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... | |
| 1839 - 256 pages
...vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sun shine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt,...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... | |
| Fashion - 514 pages
...Crayon, Gent, again :— "As the vine which has long twined '.its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy...is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence,... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...Simile. — IB. 2. As the vine', which has long twined its graceful foliage ' about the oak', and heen lifted by it into sunshine', will', when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt', cling round ii with its caressing tendrils', and bind up its shattered boughs'; so is it beautifully ordered by... | |
| 1839 - 430 pages
...bitterest blasts of adversity. As the vino which has loaf twined its graceful foliage about the oak, awi had been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted ly the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs —... | |
| Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...blasts of adversity. II. 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... | |
| George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...we have lost. — Irving. 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 ths mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
| John Patterson (maj.) - 1840 - 358 pages
...ancient writer, that,—" As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy...is rifted by the thunder-bolt, cling round it with carressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs; so it is beautifully ordered by Providence,... | |
| 1841 - 470 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... | |
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