 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 334 pages
...furious rattan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle stings and thistles. Among her other loveinspiring qualities,...I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme." — " For my own part, I never had the least thought or inclination of turning poet till I got once... | |
 | 1839 - 320 pages
...thrill like an Julian harp ; and i particularly why his pulse beat such a furious ¡ rattan when he looked and fingered over her | little hand to pick...cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love- inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which he attempted giving... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an jEolian harp; and particularly why his pulse beat such a furious rattan when he looked and fingered over her little hand, to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles." Love brought poetry to its aid, and he now composed his first verses, beginning "Once I loved a bonnie... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...heartstrings thrill like an JEolian harp ; and particularly why his pulse beat such a furious rattan when he looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettlestings and thistles.'1 Love brought poetry to its aid, and he now composed his first verses, beginning — " Once... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 328 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an /Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse heat such a furious rattan when 1 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, English - 1840 - 872 pages
...evening from our labours — why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an Kulian harp — and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious ratan when 1 looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...evenings from our labors ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an yEolian harp, and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious...pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among other love-inspiring qualities, she sang sweetly, and it was her favorite reel to which I attempted... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...evening from our labors — why the tones of her voice made my heart strings thrill like an Eolian harp — and particularly, why my pulse beat such...fingered over her little hand, to pick out the cruel nettled stings and thistles." This Dulcinea of his affections, however, was but a transient object... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an /!•'. ili;m 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 stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly: and it was... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an jEolian harp : and particularly why my pulse heat such a furious reran when I looked and fingered over her little hand to...her favourite reel, to which I attempted giving an emhodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not so presumptuous as to imagine that I could make verses like printed... | |
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I looked and 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 her favourite reel, to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. 
