 | 1820 - 856 pages
...shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be...the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart. ' I was once»congratulating a friend, who had around him a blooming family, knit together in the strongest... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be...the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart. I was once congratulating a friend, who had around him a blooming family, knit together in the strongest... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be...the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart. I was once congratulating a friend, who had around him a blooming family, knit together in the strongest... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
...shattered boughs; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be...herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly support-- ing the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart. I was once congratulating a friend,... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be...smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the nigged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be...the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart. I was once congratulating a friend, who had around him a blooming family, knit together in the strongest... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...shattered boughs; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be...smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the Digged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament of man in his happier hours, should he his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity...rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting thedrooping head, and hinding up the hroken heart. .' J I was once congratulating a friend, who had... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 426 pages
...boughs; so it is bountifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who js the mere dependant and ornament to man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace,...the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart." — Sketch Book. Climax of Blunders. — In the debate on the leather tax, in 1795, in the Irish House... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...boughs; so it is bountifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant and ornament to man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace,...the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart. uotoer of POETRY. POETRY has been the subject of animadversion from the earliest dawn of literature;... | |
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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 the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs; so... 
