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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ... - Page 353
by Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 503 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 11

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...
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Vocal Poetry: Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed ...

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...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Watts, A. Philips ...

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...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

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...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

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...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

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...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

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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