 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 1813 - 422 pages
...evening from our labours; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill 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 love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...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, James Currie - 1814 - 502 pages
...her voiee made my heart-strings thrill like an £olian harp ; and partieularly why my pulse heat sueh a furious ratan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to piek out the eruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...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 ratan when I looked and fingered ever her little hand to pick out the cruel uettl* stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...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... | |
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... when I looked and 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 her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. 
