 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1855 - 268 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...ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 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... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - Shorthand - 1857 - 88 pages
...bitter 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...is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with crossing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that... | |
 | Literature - 1857 - 240 pages
...have. Paley. As the vine has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it in sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy * From the Sketch-Book. plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it...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... | |
 | New London (Conn.) - 1858 - 434 pages
...blasts of adversity As the vine which has long trained its graceful foliage about the oak, and ha< been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunder bolt, cling round it with its caressing ten drils, and bind up its shattered boughs so it is... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1859 - 422 pages
...blasts of adversity. 3. As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted 4 by the thunderbolt, cling round it wife its caressing tendrils, 5 and bind up its shattered boughs,—so... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1860 - 436 pages
...stern blast 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...bind up its shattered boughs ; so it is beautifully ordained by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in their happier... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 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 dependent and ornament of man... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...around the oak, and been supported by it in the sunshine, will, when the hardy tree is lifted by tie thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs, — so it ia beautifully ordained by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in... | |
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As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by... 
