| James Currie - 1838 - 92 pagina’s
...same air, the touch, &e., but I never expressly said I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why 1 liked so much to loiter behind with her when returning...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... | |
| Robert Burns - 1839 - 328 pagina’s
...dearest blessing here below ! How she caught the contagion, I cannot tell : 1 never expressly said I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked...in the evening from our labours ; why the tones of A bonnie lass, I will confess, Is pleasant to the ee, But without some better qualities She's no a... | |
| 1841 - 986 pagina’s
...first of the power she had acquired over him ; and he himself did not know, as he tells us, " why he liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from their labours ; why the tones of her voice made his heartstrings thrill like an JEolian harp ; and... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pagina’s
...first of the power she had acquired over urn, and he himself did not know, as he tells us, "why he liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from their labours; why the tones of her voice make his heart-strings thrill like an jEolian harp; and particularly... | |
| 1839 - 320 pagina’s
...unconsciously fell in love with a bewitching creature, a year younger than himself. He did not know why he liked so much to loiter behind with .her, when returning in the evening from their la• hours ; why the tones of her voice made his heart-strings thrill like an Julian harp ;... | |
| Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pagina’s
...contagion I cannot tell. You medical people talk much of infection from breathing the same air, the touch, Kulian harp — and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious ratan when 1 looked and fingered... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pagina’s
...to be the first of human joys. How she caught the contagion I cannot tell ; I never expressly said I loved her : indeed I did not know myself why I liked...much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evenings from our labors ; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an yEolian... | |
| 1843 - 582 pagina’s
...old." Burns himself gives a more rational account of the matter. "Indeed, I did not know myself why 1 liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our labors — why the tones of her voice made my heart strings thrill like an Eolian harp — and particularly,... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pagina’s
...people talk much of infection from breathing the same air, the touch, &c. ; but I never expressly said I loved her. Indeed, I did not know myself why I liked...of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an /!•'. ili;m harp ; and particularly why my pulse beat such a furious rattan when I looked and fingered... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 248 pagina’s
...people talk much of infection from breathing the same air, the touch, &c., but I never expressly said I loved her. Indeed I did not know myself why I liked...behind with her, when returning in the evening from our labors; why the tones of her voice made my heart-strings thrill like an Eolian harp ; and particularly... | |
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