| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...bade me adieu, . I thought that she bade me return. In the second this passage has its prettiness, though it be not equal to the former : I have found...breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pages
...Each bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As she may not be fond to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found...breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 386 pages
...Each bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As she may not be fond to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...wood-pigeons breed: But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...return. In the second this passage has its prcttincss, though it be not equal to th* •former : 1 h**e found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where...breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 't was a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...thou knowest grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny. Compassion. I have found out a gift for my fair j I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear ! ' She will say, 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young... | |
| John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 508 pages
...concert so soft and so clear, As she may not be fond to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair 3 I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...me return. In the second this passage has its prettiness, though it he not equal to the former I 1 have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons hreed: But let me that plunder forhear, She will say 't was a harharous deed: For he ne'er could he... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...shall harmoniously join In a. concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wuod-pigeous breed : But let me that plunder furbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...me return. In the second this passage has its prettyness, though ,t be not equal to the former : 1 have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...thou-thy gifts apply ; Unask'd, what good thou knowest grant;. What ill, though ask'd, deny. Compassion. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found...breed : But let me that plunder forbear! She will say, 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young... | |
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