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... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 3381860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1860 - 796 Seiten
...lively, playful, pretty child. " Petulant she spoke, and at herself she laughed. A rosebud sot in littlo wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make...mayor of London, but by many ambitious marriages now ailied with the chief nobility : and its present representative, Sir Thomas Boleyn, the father of Anne,... | |
| 1849 - 608 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1848 - 1128 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1848 - 180 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1849 - 326 Seiten
...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." It is a curious study to read Shaksperc's play and Tennyson's poem ; let our readers try the experiment... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 Seiten
...male thing but to peep at us.' Petulant she spokev and at herself she laughed : A rosebud set with little wilful 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;... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 290 Seiten
...your light way; but I would make it death For any male thing but to peep at us." 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 Puss," And swore... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 300 Seiten
...light way ; but I would make it death For any male thing but to peep at us." • 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 Puss," And swore... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 Seiten
...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 Puss," And swore... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 Seiten
...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 its historical and... | |
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