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 | 1820 - 856 pages
...the 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,...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
...firmness, the 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,...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
...firmness, the 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,...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
...firmness, the 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,...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
...firmness, the 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,...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
...aught, except its living years. BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. "As the vine, which has long twined its 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;... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 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 the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...firmness, the 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,...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
...worth examining, we were content to view the spot at a distance, as we returned. BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. "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, cling around it with its caressing... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1834 - 320 pages
...firmness, the 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,...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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