| British poets - 1822 - 270 páginas
...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-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he... | |
| 1822 - 418 páginas
...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 where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say, 'twas a barbarous deed. For he... | |
| 1823 - 872 páginas
...passage has its prettiness, though it be not equal to the former :" I have found out a gift for ray fair ; I have found where the wood pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She would say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 216 páginas
...than my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. 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... | |
| Edmund Arthur Helps - 1884 - 360 páginas
...15 Merrily salute the dawn, And with their music seem to chide Man's ingratitude and pride. A GIFT. 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 : For he... | |
| 1889 - 366 páginas
...Plants, both of which were published about 1824. NATURAL SELECTION. A. Skit on tht Darwinian Thtory. I HAVE found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the cave men are Laid, Skull femur and pelvis are there, And spears that of silex they made. But he ne'er... | |
| Agnes Catherine Maitland - 1885 - 286 páginas
...felt certain he intended to do, smiled her thanks sweetly. ' So kind of you to take pity upon me.' ' I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood pigeona breed,' hummed Allan as they strolled down the garden. ' Pardon the quotation, Miss Cecil,... | |
| Ernest Ingersoll - 1885 - 352 páginas
...recalling that marvelously mixed mineralogical madrigal in the Colorado comic opera, Brittle Silver. " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the ealcttes abound, Where Bklopsite and zircon appear With sarcollte scattered around. " Then come love,... | |
| Virgil - 1886 - 810 páginas
...love, ie a wild pigeon's nest. — notavl locum, Í hart marked the spot. Compare Shenstone: — " I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." 69. quo, locative ablative. — congesscre, have tuili : sc. nldiini. The wood-pigeon... | |
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