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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English ... - Page 210
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Works of the English Poets: Shenstone

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 pages
...mail harmonioufly join In a concert fo foft and fo clear* As— fhe may not be fond to refign. 1 have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breedi But let me that plunder forbear, She will fay 'twaa a barbarous deed. For \ For he ne'er could...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volumes 53-54

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 702 pages
...fhall harmonioufty join In a concert fo foft and fo clear, As — me may not be fond to refign. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood -pigeons breedi But let me that plunder forbear, She will fay 'twas a barbarous deed. For For...
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Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And ...

1780 - 226 pages
...mall harmonioufly join In a concert fo foft and fo clear, As me may not be found to refign. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the...'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, (he averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young: And I lov'd her the more, when I heard I have...
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The Poetical Works of Will. Shenstone

William Shenstone - 1780 - 318 pages
...fball harmonioufly join In a eoneert lo foft and fo elear, As — lhc may not be ioud ta celign. I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the woofl-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, 35 She will fay 'twas a barbarous deed : For...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...return. D In the fecond this paflage has its prettinefs, though it be not equal to the former : I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where...'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, fhe averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young;; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tendernefs...
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The Lady's Poetical Magazine: Or, Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 1

1781 - 512 pages
...mall harmonioufly join In a concert fo foft and fo clear, As — me may not be fond to refign. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where...'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, me averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of it's young : And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tendernefs...
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prefaces biographical and critical to the works of the english poets

SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...return. In the fecond this paflage has its prettinefs, though it be not equal to the former : 1 have found out a gift for my fair ;. I have found where...She will fay 'twas a. barbarous deed : For he ne'er coiled be true, fhe averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...paffage has its prettinefs, though it be not equal to the former : I have found out a gift for my "faSr ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed: But let...'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, (he averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its youn°-; And I Wd.her the more, when I heard Such tendernefs...
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Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...has its prettinefs, though it be not equal to the former : I have found out a gift for my fair ; .1 have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let...barbarous deed : • ' For he ne'er could be true, (he averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tendernefs...
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A father's instructions; moral tales, fables, and reflections

Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...difobedience and neglect, for which, alas ! it is too late to make atonement. TAKING OF BIRD-NESTS. 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 fay 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er...
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