 | Edmund Burke - 1812 - 850 sidor
...seldom o'er ;i breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the folds combin'd Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy. You need but gaze on Ellen's rye ; Not Katrine, in her mirror blue, Gives back the shaggy banks more true, Than every free-born... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 sidor
...glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch...worth to spy, You need but gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine, in her mirror blue, Gives back the shaggy banks more true, Than every free-bern glance confessed... | |
 | 1810 - 482 sidor
...plumage of the raven's wing; " And seldom o'er a breast so fair " Mantled a plaid with modest car*,. " And never brooch the folds combined " Above a heart...more good and kind. " Her kindness and her worth to spyr " You need but gaze on Ellen's eyr , " Not Katrine, in her mirror blue, " (iifes b.ick I lie shaggy... | |
 | 1811 - 868 sidor
...bring The plitniHge of the raven's wing; And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with honest care ; And never brooch the folds combined Above a...worth to spy You need but gaze on Ellen's eye. Not KiKrine in her lui.ror blue, Gives bask the shai/ny banks more trae. Than evi:y frec-bon ¿¡lance... | |
 | 1811 - 872 sidor
...o'er a breast so fair Mantled s plaid with honett care ; And never brooch the fold* combined Abuve a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy You need but g;ize on Ellen's ey*. Kot Katrine in her mirror blue, Gives back the shaggy bank» more true. Then... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 sidor
...seldom o'er a hreast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never hrooch the folds comhined Ahove a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need hut gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine, in her mirror hlue, Gives hack the shaggy hanks more true, Than... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 sidor
...wing; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the fold combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness...worth to spy, You need but gaze on Ellen's eye; Not Katrine, in her mirror blue, Gives back the shaggy banks more true, Than every free-born glance confess'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 sidor
...wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the fold combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness...worth to spy, You need but gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine, in her mirror blue, Gives back the shaggy banks more true,, Than every free-born glance confess'd... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1825 - 1096 sidor
...glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch...worth to spy, You need but gaze on Ellen's eye ; Not Katrine, in her mirror blue, Gives back the shaggy banks more true, Than every free-born glance confess'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sidor
...wing; And seldom o'er л breast so fair, Mantled я plaid with modest care, And uever brooch the fold combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze on Kllcn's eye ; Not Katrine, in her mirror blue, Gives back tin.- shaggy banks more true, Than every... | |
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And seldom was a snood amid Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing; And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care; And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart... 
