 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1869 - 624 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an .ffiolian 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 thisties. Among her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favorite reel... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1870 - 312 pages
...an yEolian harp: and particularly wh\my pulse beat such a furious ratan when I looked ami lingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings...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 - 1870 - 642 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an JEolian harp ; and particularly! why my pulse beat such a furious rattan when 1 looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out...love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly; and it was her favorite reel to which 1 attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not so presumptuous as... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scottish literature - 1870 - 652 pages
...heartstrings thrill like an JEolian 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 favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.... | |
 | 1873 - 480 pages
...labors ; why the tones of her voice made my heart strings tbr'l; and particularly, why my heartbeat such a furious ratan when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the crue1 nettle stings and th'.,ii?s.'' The poei's inconstant hea-;, howe^e', soon forgot the Htde lass'e.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 280 pages
...heart-strings thrill like an eeolian 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... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1877 - 832 pages
...my heartstrings thrill like an .¿Eoliau harp ; and, particularly, why my pulse beat such a furions ratan, when I looked and fingered over her little...I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme." A Miss E., to whom he seems to have been seriously devoted, escaped immortality by jilting him. Her... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1880 - 1024 pages
...Scottish idiom — she was a bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass Among her other love-inspiring qualities she sang sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I...embodied vehicle in rhyme. I was not so presumptuous a- to imagine that I could make verses like printed ones, composed by men who had Greek and Latin ;... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1867 - 798 pages
...made my heartstrings thrill like an ^Eolian harp : and, particnlarly, why my pnlse beat snch a fnrions ratan, when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick ont the crnel nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qnalities, she snng sweetly... | |
 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 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...thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualities she sang sweetly ; and it was her favourite reel to which I attempted giving an embodied vehicle in rhyme.... | |
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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. 
