 | Robert Burns - 1889 - 328 Seiten
...heart-strings thrill like an JEoYtan harp, and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rantann when I looked and fingered over her little hand to...her other love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly . . . Thus with me began love and poetry.' — (Letter, and Aug. 1787.) l. 60. The marled plaid ye... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 Seiten
...labors ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an ^Eolian harp, and, especially, why my pulse beat such a furious ratan when I looked...the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. " Among her love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her favorite reel to which I attempted giving... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 Seiten
...heart-strings thrill like an JEolian harp, and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rantann when I looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles." See also Burns's poetical version of the incident — When 6rst amang the yellow com A man I reckoned... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1892 - 130 Seiten
...the evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heartstrings thrill like an /Eolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious ratan, when I looked, and fingered over her hand to pick out the nettle-stings and thistles. Among her other love-inspiring qualifications, she... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1892 - 312 Seiten
...evening when returning from their labors, and for whom his heart used to beat so furiously when he looked and fingered over her little hand to pick out the cruel nettle-stings and thistles. This girl, Nelly Kilpatrick, the daughter of the blacksmith who had loaned him The Life of Sir William... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 Seiten
...evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heartstrings thrill like an .^Eolian harp ; and particularly, why my pul.se 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.... | |
 | John Dawson Ross - 1893 - 274 Seiten
...labors; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an Jljolian harp ; and, especially, why my pulse beat such a furious ratan when I looked...fingered over her little hand, to pick out the cruel nettle-sting and thistles. Among her love-inspiring qualities, she sang sweetly ; and it was her favorite... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 Seiten
...labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heartstrings thrill like an -<Eolian harp ; and especially why my pulse beat such a furious ratan when I looked...fingered over her little hand, to pick out the cruel nettle - stings and thistles. Among her love-inspiring qualities, she sung sweetly ; and it was her... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 Seiten
...the evening from our labours ; why the tones of her voice made my heartstrings thrill like an yEolian harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious...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... | |
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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. 
