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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. "
Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications - Page 312
by Constable and co, ltd - 1826
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial ...

Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an .^Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rattan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to...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...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns: Including Several Pieces Not Inserted in ...

Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 pages
...furious ratan 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 her favorite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not so presumptuous as...
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Men who have made themselves [by J. McGilchrist].

John McGilchrist - 1860 - 406 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an .^Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rattan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to...love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favouiite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not so presumptuous...
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The Genius and Character of Robert Burns: An Essay and Criticism on His Life ...

John Wilson - 1861 - 236 pages
...the 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 a furious...looked and fingered over her little hand, to pick out *,he cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiri/ig qualities, she sang sweetly...
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Routledge's Every Boy's Annual

Children's literature - 1865 - 1136 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an 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-stings and thistles. Amongst her other love-inspiring qualities, she sang sweetly, and it was her favourite reel to which...
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Belgravia, a London magazine, conducted by M.E. Braddon, Volume 12

Belgravia - 1870 - 558 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-over her little hand to pick-out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love...
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First Loves: With Sketches of the Poets ...

Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 pages
...the evening from our labors, why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an JEolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious...thistles. Among her other loveinspiring qualities, she sang sweetly, and it was her favorite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme....
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Three Household Poets: Milton, Corrper, Burns Introduction on Poetry and Song

John Tomlinson - English poetry - 1869 - 192 pages
...made my heart-strings thrill like an ^Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furioiis ratan when I looked and fingered over her little hand...which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme Thus with me began love and poetry." The father, old William Burns, was a worthy companion and tutor...
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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an TEolian harp, and, particularly, why my pulse beat such a furious rattan, when I looked and fingered over her little hand, to...thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sang sweetly, and it was her favorite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme....
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A History of the Celebration of Robert Burns' 110th Natal Day, at the ...

1869 - 100 pages
...tones of her voice made my heart strings thrill like the notes of an seolian harp, and my heart beat a furious ratan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle and thistles." He loved and loved again, and though in all things a manly man, it may be said,...
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