 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 pages
...thy gifts apply ; nask'd, what good thou knowest grant v What ill, though aek'd, deny. Compassion. have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood pigeons breed r t let roe that plunder forbear ! She will uy 'tie a barbarous deed. r he ne'er... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As— sho may not be fond to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found out the wood-pigeon's breed: But let me that plunder forbear, She will lay 'twas a barbarous deed.... | |
 | 1818 - 444 pages
...literally imitated by Virgil, but Mr. Shenstone has made a new and nobler use of it in his pastoral ballad. I have found out a gift for my fair, , I have found...wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say t'was a barbarous deed. &c. &c. Shenstone. în the sixth Idyllium, Daphnis singing tells Polyphemus... | |
 | 1818 - 426 pages
...imitated by Virgil, but Mr. Shenstone has made a new and nobler use of it in his pastoral ballad. 1 have 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. &c. &c. Shenstone. In the sixth Idyllium, Daphnis singing tells Polyphemus... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1818 - 358 pages
...Shenstone's beautiful pastoral— " My banks they are furnished with bees," &c. till she came to— " I hav« found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." " There's some sense in that," cried the Doctor, who had been listening with great weariness. " You... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1818 - 300 pages
...would not have denied being the author of that sweetly moral, and simply pastoral eclogue, — " " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeon breeds." " Oh, dacency ! Miss Crawley," interrupted her brother Darby, winking at the sub-sheriff... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 386 pages
...bird shall harmoniously join In a concert BO 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 aver'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...Shenstone's beautiful pastoral — " My banks they are furnished with bees," &c. till she came to — " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." " There*s some sense in that," cried the Doctor, who had been listening with great weariness. " You... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...she bade me adien, 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 out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pidgeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, In the second this passage has its prettiness, though it be not equal to the former : I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pidgeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he... | |
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I 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... 
