 | Henry Southgate - Love poetry - 1873 - 448 pages
...Massey. THE OAK AND THE VINE. As this 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... | |
 | Peter Harvey - Statesmen - 1877 - 518 pages
...drawn by Washington 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...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English language - 1878 - 396 pages
...long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when tbe hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round...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 - 1880 - 460 pages
...its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will7, when the hardy plant8 is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up9 its shattered boughs; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - Conduct of life - 1881 - 672 pages
...graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it in sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rived by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing...bind up its shattered boughs. So it is beautifully ordained that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in happiest hours, should be his... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1882 - 632 pages
...indeed in cases of need. " As the ivy 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 ordained that ' literature,' which is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...keener with constant use/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...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 in... | |
 | Similitudes, B. S. - Quotations, English - 1882 - 136 pages
...the evening dews. kj T IKE 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 it is beautifully ordered by Providence that... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...cadence at the close of this: 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 ordained by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man... | |
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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... 
