 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
 | 1890 - 438 Seiten
...a genius of prudence." Because she is wee, and has a winsome smile. Because she is a rosebud tipped with little wilful thorns, and sweet as English air can make her. Because she never thinks ol A telegram was received from the Rose Queen at the High School, Cork, conveying... | |
 | Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1892 - 288 Seiten
...flower, what have we so effective as the rose, — whether in the bouquet of some ball-room belle, herself — " A Rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air can make her," — in the elegant vases of the drawing-room, or, as I most rejoice to see them, in the cups of silver,... | |
 | Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1892 - 232 Seiten
...individual flowers, which would a lover take to his beloved — which would his darling, herself " A Eosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air can make her," osculate and pet the most 1 And the stove, truly, is a gladness and refreshment — gay, when all without... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1892 - 896 Seiten
...make it death For any male thing but to peep at us.' Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laugh'd; 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 Seiten
...following : Jewels five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of all time Sparkle forever. * * » A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her. 25 386 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 Seiten
...woman, is a little gem of English maidenhood — " Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed ; A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she." Her brother, in the midst of a popular " amusementi combined-with-instruction... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 408 Seiten
...to Edith Aylmer, whose fresh and innocent eyes Had such a star of morning in their blue ; or Lilia, "a rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her." In Tennyson's first volume his bias was detected, and his characteristics noticed... | |
 | 1893 - 628 Seiten
...Elise, the heroine of the story, to whom nothing could more fitly apply than the words of Tennyson : "A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, and sweet as English air could make her, she." Philadelphia Record. A FISHER GIRL OF FRANCE. From the French of Fernand Calmettes.... | |
 | John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 384 Seiten
...to Edith Aylmer, whose fresh and innocent eyes Had such a star of morning in their blue ; or Lilia, "a rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her." In Tennyson's first volume his bias was detected, and his characteristics noticed... | |
 | 1893 - 736 Seiten
...reprehensible, but not without its own attraction ; the character summed up in the ' Lilia ' of the Princess. ' A rose-bud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she.' This type of damsel, with the variant, who is equally sweet, but perhaps a trifle... | |
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