| Edmund Burke - History - 1801 - 762 pages
...and tliililes. Among her Other kwc-infpiriug qualities, flic fling fweetly ; and it was her favourile reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not fo prefumptuoiK as to imagine that I could make verfes like printed ones, compofed by men who had Greek... | |
| English literature - 1800 - 532 pages
...the cruel nettle iHngs and thirties. Among her other love-infpiring qualities, Ihe fung J'weetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted...in rhyme. I' was not fo prefumptuous as to imagine th.it I could make verfes like printed ones, compofed by men who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl... | |
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...cruel " nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other " 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 as to imagine that I could " make verses like printed ones, composed by " men who had... | |
| English poetry - 1801 - 860 pages
...the cruel nettle-dings and thiftles. Among her other lov.eriufpiring qualities, the ftmg fweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was notfo prefumptuous as to, imagine that I could make verfes like printed ones, compofed by men who had... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other 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 as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 820 pages
...the cruel nettle-ftings and thirties. Among her other Jove-infpiring qualities, ihe fuug fweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted...not fo prefumptuous as to imagine that I could make verfes like printed caes, compofed by m«n who had Greek and Latin ; but my girl fung a fong which... | |
| Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...the cruel nettle-stings' and thistles. Among her other 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 as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men... | |
| Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...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. I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek... | |
| British prose literature - 1819 - 364 pages
...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. 1 was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - Scotland - 1820 - 484 pages
...nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly; and it was her favorite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek... | |
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