| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 էջ
...evening from our labours ; why the tones " of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an " JEolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse " beat such a furious ratan when I looked and fin" gered over her little hand to pick out the cruel " nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 էջ
...evening from our labours; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill thrill like an JEolian harp; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious...love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly; and it was her favourite reel, to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not so presumptuous... | |
| 1809 - 604 էջ
...heart-strings thrill like the /Eolian harp ; and particularly, why my pulse beat such a furious ratarr when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles.' Religion, as we have seen, had already warmed his affections, and heroism elevated his imagination!;... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 էջ
...voice made my heart-tlrings -thrill like an TEolian harp; and particularly why my puîfe beat fuch a furious ratan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-ftings and thirties. Among her other Jove-infpiring qualities, ihe fuug fweetly ; and it was... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 էջ
...heart.strings thrill, like *u /Eolian harp ; and particularly, why my pulse beat such a furious rattan, when I looked and fingered over her little hand, to pick out the cruel nettle-stints and thistles. " Tbus, with me began love and poetry ; which at times hav« been my only,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 էջ
...evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an JEolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious...love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. J was not so presumptuous... | |
| 1819 - 364 էջ
...evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an ^Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious...fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle stings and thistles. Among her other loveinspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was... | |
| Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 էջ
...evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an . Koliim harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious...fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle stings and thistles. Among her other loveinspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was... | |
| Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 էջ
...unwittingly initiated him in that delicious passion which formed ever after the ruling influence of his life. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favorite reel to which Burns attempted to give an embodied vehicle in rhyme. He was not so presumptuous as to imagine, that... | |
| Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 էջ
...unwittingly initiated him in that delicious passion which formed ever after the ruling influence of his life. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favorite reel to which Burns attempted to give an embodied vehicle in rhyme. He was not so presumptuous as to imagine, that... | |
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