 A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she : But Walter hail'da score of names upon her, And 'petty Ogress,' and 'ungrateful Puss,' And swore he long'd at college, only long'd, All else was well, for she-society.  The Florist, Fruitist, and Garden Miscellany - Seite 781858Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 Seiten
...oceans, in whose billowy drops Tritons and lions of the sea were warring. BEDBOES. A WILFUL LITTLE LADY. A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her. TENNYSON. NATUBE'S PITY FOB HUMAN PBIDE. Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 Seiten
...make it death For any male thing but to peep at us." Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed ; A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she : But Walter hailed a score of names upon her, And " petty Ogress," and " ungrateful... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 Seiten
...in the " Princess " to a thorny rose is admirable : Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed, A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. Bead that most English of tree-poems, " The Talking Oak," slowly, and notice both... | |
 | Claude Aston - 1855 - 316 Seiten
...marriage of your seeking, So be it of your wooing. BTBOV. Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed ; A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. THE FK1NCESS. THE Earl of Elverland stood in the drawingroom at Vale court, already... | |
 | Julia Cecilia Stretton - 1856 - 346 Seiten
...have knelt down to admire the exquisite little figure, the lovely, blushing, innocent child-face — " A rosebud Set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her." Her dress was of white lace, purest, finest, most valuable Brussels. That, all the... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1857 - 444 Seiten
...dazzling and fascinating beyond any girl I ever saw. " Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laugh'd ; A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her." I do like people to have some leaven in them, though all the brains I ever possessed... | |
 | Catherine Anne Hubback - 1858 - 1048 Seiten
...could not fail to excite in her mind. CHAPTER III. " Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed, A rose-bud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her." THF- PRINCESS. SIDNEY ELLIOTT and her companion had advanced but a short distance... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1860 - 672 Seiten
...with crape in his drawing-rooms, waving fair hair, long dark eyes, and a mischievous, sunny face — A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her. " Where's the governor, Fay ?" reiterated Sydie. " Here, my dear boy. Thought of your... | |
 | 1860 - 978 Seiten
...exactly suited her, and Gyneth, who was devoted to Tennyson, had a private theory that the line, " A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, and sweet as English air could make her, she," must have been specially intended for a description of Rose Burnaby. The canon... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 Seiten
...make it death For any male thing but to peep at us." Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed ; A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she : But Walter hailed a score of names upon her, And " petty Ogress," and " ungrateful... | |
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