Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It caught the public fancy as no other work of his caught it, and on the strength of its popularity many of the critics do not hesitate to call it a great symphony, and on the strength of the symphony Tschaikowsky a great composer. It is true that the Casse Noisette suite is always applauded, but it is a trifling work compared with his best.
At the sound of their steps a young woman of twenty to five and twenty, dressed in a silk morning gown, and busily engaged in plucking the dead leaves off a noisette rose-tree, raised her head. This was Julie, who had become, as the clerk of the house of Thomson & French had predicted, Madame Emmanuel Herbault.
I walked on a few yards, and then paused, looking back. What a peaceful home it seemed; how calm and sure a retreat, with the white Noisette roses crowning its ancient gray walls!
"My dear Fleda!" whispered Constance, after some time spent in restless reconnoitring of everything "I don't see my English rose anywhere!" "Hush!" said Fleda, smiling. "That happened not to be an English rose, Constance." "What was it?" "American, unfortunately; it was a Noisette; the variety, I think, that they call 'Conque de Vénus. "
Then in wider parts of the glade, nearer home, are your favourite standards the damask, and Provence, and moss, which, you know, are varieties of the centifolia, and the noisette standards some of them are very fine, and the Chinese roses, and countless hybrids and varieties of all these, with many Bourbons; and your beautiful American yellow rose, and the Austrian briar and eglantine, and the Scotch, and white and dog roses, in their innumerable varieties, change admirably well with the others, and relieve the eye very happily."
Charlotte, trying to pet and comfort her in every possible way, brought in all the best flowers still lingering in the garden, and among them a last blossom of the Noisette rose, the same of which Guy had been twisting a spray, while he first told her of his love. It was too much.
Word Of The Day