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
| Ouida - 1900 - 412 Seiten
...not yellow, but, au contraire, had 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... | |
| Rosa Nouchette Carey - 1900 - 352 Seiten
...tell me that Mr. Campbell had put off his visit until Christmas Eve. CHAPTER XXIII A CHRISTMAS IDYLL "A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her." TENNYSON. IT had been arranged for weeks beforehand that we were to spend Christmas... | |
| John Murray Moore - 1901 - 162 Seiten
...bright, sportive, teasing Lilia, to a briarrose : — 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 song of the Brook is the most perfect of all Tennyson's Nature-Studies. The... | |
| Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor - 1902 - 382 Seiten
...bunch of lilies tied with a bow of scarlet ribbon. On the card with the flowers Ludwig had written: "A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she." The dreary weeks of war rolled on. Though the armies of Germany tramped past... | |
| 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair. The Princess. Prologue. Line 141. A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. Part i. Line 153. 1 See Cowper, page 422. Jewels five-words-long, That on the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 Seiten
...it death 150 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, 155 And "petty Ogress," and "ungrateful... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1902 - 568 Seiten
...stay, please," said Isabel. " I would rather hear nothing that Pansy may not." — HENRY JAMES. 6. A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. — TENNYSOW. 7. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these:... | |
| Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 Seiten
...used is a metaphor ; the person is called a flower. Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laugh'd ; A rose-bud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her. TENNYSON : The Princess. An examination of the preceding descriptions of character... | |
| Helena Swan - 1904 - 630 Seiten
...shock Dislink'd with shrieks and laughter. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Princess : Prologue, II. 68-70. A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Princess: Prologue- U. 153-4. A beautiful and happy... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1904 - 328 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... | |
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