" "Do you remember the scene in Shakespeare where Bolingbroke and Gaunt pluck the roses?" "Quite well.

To dream of being pricked with briars, says the "Royal Dream Book," "shows that the person dreaming has an ardent desire to something, and that young folks dreaming thus are in love, who prick themselves in striving to gather their rose.

The monkey brought her a rose.

"I am not sending you roses because I think you are short of bouquets, but just because there are certain things a red rose can say, that I can not.

" He took a rose and approached.

I'd have a nice little farm in the country, and I'd grow roses, and breed sheep and pigs, and" "And lose all your brass in a couple of years!"

There, over a doorway on the south, is a shield, with the arms of Henry VII., and two figures kneeling before the Blessed Virgin, attended by an angel holding a rose.

But the chief part of the gratification you receive from smelling a rose, arises from some past scene of delight of which it reminds you; as, of the days of your innocence and childhood, when you ran about the gardenor when you were decorated with nosegaysor danced round a may-pole, (this is rather a free translation)or presented a bunch of flowers to some little favourite.

But I haven't seen the roses yet, and a pair of ear muffs wouldn't be uncomfortable in this cutting breeze.

It gratified him to see that, among the shower of bouquets she was constantly receiving, his was the one she usually carried; nor was she unobservant that he always wore a fresh rose.

"I love youred roses," she said, "but you are not enough.

and even then she gave me a rose, with the same coquetry, I doubt not, that had once made Colonel Jere Lansdale quick to think of his pistols when another evoked it.

How red the roses in his cheeks are laughing!

His hair was long and yellow and curled upon his shoulders, and in his hand he bore an early rose, which he smelled at daintily now and then.

DICKENS, as soon as he saw me, stopped writing, wiped his pen, ran his fingers through his hair, took out his watch and wound it up, brushed his coat and put it on (not forgetting to place a rose in the button-hole), and then, waving his hands very gracefully (he wore high-priced studs and a pair of elaborately built sleeve-buttons), addressed me as follows: Mr. DICKENS (with tender embrace) SARSFIELD!!!!

" They left the dismembered roses scattered in fragrant heaps on the shaded path and walked slowly toward the dense hedge.

A moment afterward he cut all the roses of the garden.

"I picked a rose in my garden fair" sang Ada.

According to a German belief, one who throws a rose into a grave will waste away.

Blue eyes, gray eyes, black eyes, and brown, As shuts the rose, they softly close, when he goes through the town.

Another version of this charm is the following :"On the head of our Lord God there bloom three roses: the first is His virtue, the second is His youth, the third is His will.

So "perish the roses and the flowers"how is it?

You will go on enjoying your mighty theories and dreams till suddenly the juice of that 'little western flower' drips on your eyelids, and then I shall have the pleasure of seeing you caress 'the fair large ears' of some donkey, and hang rapturously upon its bray, till you perhaps discover that he has pretended, on your account solely, to like roses, when he has a natural proclivity to thistles; and then, pitiable child!

Now you may by its side find the rose and homely yarrow, and small meadows full of bees and clover.

"I wonder how soon my maid will come," she mused, dropping the loose roses on her knees.