 | Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 496 pages
...happy in their state. MS. FROM A LOVER OF THE HOUSE OF YORK, To his Mistress of the House of Lancaster, IF this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear ; 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. THE PRISONER. Jin, Hope, seraphic... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...old author we have this beautiful Epigram on a White Rose being presented to a Lancastrian Lady :— If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear; Twill bhish to find itself less white, And turu Lancastrian there. The ' busy' bee stifl pursues his... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...and in an old author we have this Epigram on a White Rose being presented to a Lancastrian Lady:— If this fair Rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear; 'Twill hlush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. The flowers which blossomed in... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 408 pages
...one worh of mine which ne'er t hall fade! To A LADY OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, WITH A WHITE ROSE. If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear; 'Twill blush to see itself less white, And turn Lancast'rian there. The latter, which its author has,... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Commonplace-books - 1838 - 388 pages
...supposed to have been presented to his mistress by a partisan during the contests of Lancaster and York. If this fair rose offend thy sight. It in thy bosom wear, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. Internal evidence is strongly against... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...suitably expressed. Example of the Madrigal. TO A LADY OF THE COUSTY OF LANCASTER, WITH A WHITE KOBE. If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom...find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. The Rondeau or rondo, roundo, roundel or roundelay, all mean precisely the same thing. It commonly... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...suitably expressed. Example of the Madrigal. CO A LADY OF TILE COU2TTY OF LANCASTER, WITH A WHITE BOftB. If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom...find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. The Rondeau or rondo, roundo, roundel or roundelay, all o«;an precisely the same thing. It commonly... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - Society of Friends - 1848 - 652 pages
...War of the Roses. It was to an ancestress of hers that those beautiful lines were addressed, — 1 If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear; 'T will lilu,.li to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there.' My poor nurse Margaret was always... | |
 | E. A. ANSLEY - English language - 1849 - 288 pages
...is lively and piquant; that in a madrigal, on the contrary, is sweet, simple, and graceful. Ex. — "If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear; 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there." "Un roi qu'on aime et'qu'on revere... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...of the Madrigal. TO A LADY OF THE COUNTY OP LANCASTER, WITH A WHITE ROAE. If this, fair rose ofiend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear; 'T will blush to...find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. The Kondeau or rondo, roundo, roundel or roundelay, all mean precisely the same thing. It commonly... | |
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If this fair rose offend thy sight, It in thy bosom wear ; 'T will blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there. 
