 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...robin's breast, ID the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the spring a lovelier iris changes on the burnished dove, In the spring...young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." With many other pastoral customs of the olden time', that of the rural celebration of May-day is well-nigh... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...robin's breast, In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest 5 In the spring a lovelier iris changes on the burnished dove, In the spring...young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." With many other pastoral customs of the olden time, that of the rural celebration of May-day is well-nigh... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...robin's breast, In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the spring a lovelier iris changes on the burnished dove, In the spring...young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." With many other pastoral customs of the olden time, that of the rural celebration of May-day is well... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 426 pages
...the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the spring a lovelier iris changes ou the burnished dove, In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." With many other pastoral customs of the olden time, that of the rural celebration of May-day is well-nigh... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - 1857 - 366 pages
...saved him from the designation — ugly. And now the common fate was his. Tennyson sings of youth — " In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ; " — and our poet-painter was no exception to the rule. He was the admirer of every pretty girl... | |
 | Hiram Fuller - United States - 1858 - 386 pages
...the spring, the wanton lapwing Gets himself another crest; In the spring, a livelier iris Plays upon the burnished dove ; In the spring, a young man's fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of love." LETTER No. XXVI. MY DEAR : CAPE MAY, \ November 11, 1857. \ * * * PEOPLE of quiet habits, and accustomed... | |
 | England - 1863 - 752 pages
...match for any girl, though he be forty instead of thirty. We have high authority for believing that in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. It cannot be unreasonable to hold that the same phenomenon may be observed in a young woman. Let none,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1887 - 720 pages
...crimson comes upon the robin's breast, In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest, In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished...young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. The name of the stickleback falls unfortunately below the level of the lyrical muse, or else he might... | |
 | Sarah Tytler - English fiction - 1860 - 364 pages
...of the population, often kindles fancy and passion, or brings to a consummation a dilatory wooing. ' In the spring a young man's fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of love,' writes the poet ; but, in the ripe and ruddy autumn, after the toils of the day, many a simple, sturdy... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1862 - 556 pages
...in favour of its being early spring-time at this stage of the proceedings, for every one knows that "In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." H'm, by the way, " lightly turns to thoughts of love" ? Had this phrase been written by one less profoundly... | |
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In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the Robin's breast ; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest ; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. 
