 | Virgil - 1894 - 808 Seiten
...love, ie a wild pigeon's nest. — notavl locum, / have marked the spot. Compare Shenstone : — " I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." 69. qno, locative ablative. — congessere, have built : sc. nldum. The wood-pigeon is sacred to Venus.... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1894 - 312 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - 368 Seiten
...strains of wild melody flow ! How the nightingales warble their loves From thickets of roses that blow ! And when her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall...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 wood-pigeons breed: But let me that plunder... | |
 | Alexander Francis Chamberlain - 1895 - 482 Seiten
...golden age, that other Eden where love is over all. Shenstone, in his beautiful pastoral, says : — " I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed," and the " love of the turtle," " billing and cooing," are now transferred to human affection. Venus,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 Seiten
...contemporaries by its mellifluous seesaw, and its jingling resonance comes back to the reader of to-day. " I have found out a gift for my fair: I have found where the wood -pigeons breed." The elegiac form and triple rhythm please the fancy in the still remembered "Yet... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 490 Seiten
...contemporaries by its mellifluous seesaw, and its jingling resonance comes back to the reader of to-day. "I have found out a gift for my fair: I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." The elegiac form and triple rhythm please the fancy in the still remembered "Yet time may diminish... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 Seiten
...strove With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love To prune the wild branches away. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ;But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er could be true, she averred,... | |
 | Virgil - 1898 - 928 Seiten
...found a gift for my love. ie a wild pigeon's - notavi locum, / have marked the spot. Cf. Shenstone : I have found out a gift for my fair : I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. quo, where (lit. whither). — congessere, have built (lit. have lit together), sc. nidum. The wood-pigeon... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 Seiten
...four parts and in a tripping anapestic measure. Familiar to most readers is the stanza beginning: " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." Dr. Johnson acknowledged the prettiness of the conceit: " So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that... | |
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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... 
