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. Proceedings - Sida 210efter Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1892 - 288 sidor
...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... | |
| Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1893 - 338 sidor
...invention of the story by her championship of the modern woman, is a little gem of English maidenhood — " Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed ; A...thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she." Her brother, in the midst of a popular " amusementi combined-with-instruction " scene, had read of... | |
| 1893 - 628 sidor
...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. With illustrations... | |
| 1893 - 736 sidor
...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 irritating in her... | |
| John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 384 sidor
...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 by his friend Spedding,... | |
| John Cuming Walters - 1893 - 408 sidor
...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 by his friend Spedding,... | |
| 1895 - 482 sidor
...recreation — dearly she loved it, and exceedingly well she did it. CHAPTER XII. UNDER THE CEDAR. " A rose-bud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she." ELLA SETON paused abruptly in her stroll across the velvety lawn, and gazed at Emily with a look of... | |
| Henry Wace - 1895 - 378 sidor
...instincts, which are played on, like her own violin, by art, fancy, love, sympathy, or repulsion. " A rosebud, set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she ;" but developing, through her dangerous experiences, the deeper moral capacities she inherits from... | |
| Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr - 1895 - 612 sidor
...thank Providence, the rule from which eccentricities such as those referred to are the exception — " A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air can make her." Some one has said that woman is one of Nature's agreeable blunders, and every one is... | |
| 1896 - 1224 sidor
...love. o. ESAIAS TEONER — Fridthjofs Saga. Canto VIII. Airy, fairy Lilian. p. TENNYSON — Lilian. n hair — the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in q. TENNYSON — The Princess. Prologue. L. 153. For woman is not undeveloped man But diverse ; could... | |
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