 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 sider
...shield. The start lates with such improvement as the rugged Johnson pronounced a prettiness. • . I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found...wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear ; ing foe arose. We rushed on in the sound of our arms. Their crowded steps fly over the heath. They... | |
 | Salomon Gessner - 1805 - 332 sider
...subject has been a favorite with pastoral writers. Shenstone's lines are familiar to every one : " I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : The bird. which he presented to Phillis: she received it with delight, and kissed him in return.... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 204 sider
...bird 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...plunder forbear : She will say, ' 'twas a barbarous deed !' For he ne'er could be true, she ave^d, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 sider
...hird 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...let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a harharous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor hird of its young: And... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 sider
...her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...plunder forbear, She will say twas a barbarous deed. • For he ne'er coulJ be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her... | |
 | William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 sider
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sider
...her bright form shall appear, Each bird shall harmoniously join, In a concert so soft and so clear, I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found...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 its young ; And I lov'd her... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 sider
...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...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 its young; And I lov'd her... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 sider
...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...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 its young ; And I lov'd her... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 330 sider
...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...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 its young : And I loved her... | |
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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... 
