 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 is it...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 1281845Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...' 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 is it beautifully ordered... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...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 plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...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 plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...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 plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...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 plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs; so is it beautifully ordered... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 426 pages
...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; so it is bountifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who js the mere dependant... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...— 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...around it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its scattered boughs; so it is bountifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts of adversity. As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by...the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered... | |
 | 1832 - 440 pages
..."As the vine, which has long twined its foliage around the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshin*, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt,...around it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its scattering boughs ; so it is bountifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependant... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...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 plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered... | |
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