 | 1849 - 608 páginas
...make it death For any male thing but to peep at us.' 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, she." Hereupon the poet, who is ono of the party, tells a tale of a princess who did what Lilia threatened... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 páginas
...lime Made noise with bees and breeze from end to end." The students with Lilia, their host's sister, " A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her,'' have assembled in the old Abbey ruins; and there, after some :areless chat, one of them is called upon... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 186 páginas
...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 Puss,' And swore... | |
 | 1848 - 1128 páginas
...Lilia is a truly sweet creation, whose being seems revealed to us in a few words : " A rosebud set wilh little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she :" Her playful scorn of us men is very bewitching : " ' What kind of tales do men tell men, I wonder,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 326 páginas
...silken-sandaled foot: ' That's your light way, but I would make it death For any male thing but to peep at us.' Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed : A...thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she." It is a curious study to read Shaksperc's play and Tennyson's poem ; let our readers try the experiment... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 328 páginas
...' That's your light way, but I would make it death For any male thing but to peep at us.' Petulaut she spoke, and at herself she laughed : A rosebud...thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she." It is a curious study to read Shakspere's play and Tennyson's poem ; let our readers try the experiment... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 320 páginas
...silken-sandaled foot: ' That's your light way, but I would make it death For any male thing but to peep at us.' Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed : A...little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could muke her, she." It is a curious study to read Shaksperc's play and Tennyson's poem ; let our readers... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1849 - 608 páginas
...make it death For any male thing but to peep at ue.' Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laugh'd; is the memory of our wedded lives, And dear the last embraces of our wives, And t site." Hereupon the poet, who is one of the party, tells a tale of a princess who did what Lilia threatened... | |
 | Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 páginas
...Gothic ruin, where they light upon the sister and daughter of thcir host. The latter, named Lilia— ' A rose-bud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her ' — is led by the mention of an ancestress who had 'Arm'd Her own fair head, and sallying thro the... | |
 | John Brent - 1850 - 328 páginas
...LONDON: THOMAS CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER* 30, WELBECK ST., CAVENDISH S*. 1850. ELLIE FORESTERE. CHAPTER I. A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her ! TENNYSON. THE Oaks of Holmesdale dated back to days when the PlantageijetV were kings. The park was... | |
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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. 
