| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 Seiten
...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 where the. wood pigeons breed: But let me that plunder forbear ! And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness... | |
| Noah Webster - 1822 - 246 Seiten
...and his anxiety to please, which continually hurries him from one object and one exertion to another. "I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood pigeons breed; Yet let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 Seiten
...wood-pigeon? — A passage, worthy the pen of Simonides, embellishes the bird, and endears it to humanity. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear ; She would say, 'twas a barbarous deed. " For he ne'er can be true," she averr'd, " Who can rob a poor bird... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 404 Seiten
...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 5 But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 Seiten
...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... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 Seiten
...return. In the second this ршмде Ьад its prettin»M, though it be not equal to the former: 1 bave found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed: Bat let me that plunder forbear, , She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...strains of wild melody flow ! How the nightingales warble their loves From thickets of roses that blow ! c ` ` `p`ka b a ` a cw`x`y`z`{`|` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `RcScTcUcVc ` ` ` `ncocpcqcrcWcIb\cecfcgchcic ` ` ` 1 have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 Seiten
...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...woodpigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...shall harmoniously join In a eoneert so soft and so elear, As — she may not be fond to resign. l A joke on Jekyll, or some odd old Whig, Who never ehang'd his prineiple, or wig ; ltt me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er eould be true, she aver'd,... | |
| Albert Picket - 1825 - 272 Seiten
...bear high my pray'r, Up to thy throne, my God, my King, To plead for pardon there? Tenderness of Mind. I HAVE found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the woodpigecns breed ; But let me that plunder forbear! She will say 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er... | |
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