 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 460 str.
...reward secure, The lovely Mary Mori son. Yestreen when to the trembling string, The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard or saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, and said amang them... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 str.
...despairing, Than aught in the world beside — Jessy ! " The conclusion of the other is as follows. " Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed...thee my Fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw. Tho' this was fair, and that was bra', And yon the toast of a' the town, I sighed and said... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 str.
...beside — Jessy!" The conclusion of the other is as follows. " Yestreen, when to the tremblingwstring The dance gaed through the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took us wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw. Tho' this was fair, and that was bra', And yon the toast... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1822 - 232 str.
...my fame up with a shriek, like dames Who dread to soil their slippers. MAY MORISON enters singing. Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed...my fancy took its wing : I sat, but neither heard nor saw. (.Dresses her.) Eh ! help me, madam, you 've a martial look ; The bonnet fits you rarely —... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 str.
...reward secure, The lovely Mary Morison. Yestreen when to the trembling string, The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard or saw : Tho' this was fair, and that was br . And you the toast of a' the towv O Mary, canst thou wreck his... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 388 str.
...bide the stoure, A weary slave frae sun to sun, Could I the rich reward secure Of lovely Mary Morison. Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed...thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw : Though this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, and... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 str.
...reward secure, The lovely Mary Morison ! Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',. To thee my fancy took its wing ; I sat, but neither heard or saw : Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, ami said amang... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 str.
...frae sun to sun, Could I the rich reward secure Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gacd through the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, hut neither heard nor saw: Though this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 str.
...the stoure, A weary slave frae sun to sun ; Could I the rich reward secure, The lovely Mary Morison. Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed...Though this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd, and said atnang them a', " Ye arena Mary Morison." O Mary, canst thou... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 str.
...impression upon a weak understanding only or a disordered fancy. Robertson's History of Scotland. To tbec my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard or...Though this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a* the town. Hums. That a people beset with such real and imaginary bugbears, should fancy... | |
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The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison! 
