 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 520 ページ
...stanzas from Shenstone, conned in the dear old "English Reader," delighted our tender infant heart : " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But, oh, let me this plunder forbear She will say 't was a barbarous deed; " For he ne'er can be true, she... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 ページ
...bedight As is his sister of the copses green.' 710. this barbarous act forbear. Cp. Shenstone — ' I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found...breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed.' Pastoral Ballad, Ft. II. (date i?43\ 714. Her ruined care. Her young,... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1891 - 432 ページ
...Martin and he had nearly been drowned in the yolk. 262 TOM PUT OUT. CHAPTEE IV. THE BIRD-FANCIEES. * I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons bn»4 : But let me the plunder forbear, Shu would say 'twas a barbarous deed." Eowm. * And now, my... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 452 ページ
...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...wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 't was a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averred, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 460 ページ
...my cattle unfold ; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold. 11 1 have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where...breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 't was a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averred, Who could rob a poor bird of... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1892 - 356 ページ
...collar very conspicuous on its gray throat, as it flies out with a great rush. Shenstone wrote — I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me the plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed And it would have been an unsatisfactory one... | |
 | 1892 - 732 ページ
...collar very conspicuous on its grey throat, as it flies out with a great rush. Shenstone wrote : ' I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me the plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed.' And it would have been an unsatisfactory... | |
 | 1893 - 564 ページ
...Veneri aunt prsemia ; namque notavi, Ipse locum ab'rise quo congessere palumbes." Virg. Ec. iii. 68. " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." Shenstone. t fyrniir — iyaiptv. * oiiSiv IfiUiXov § dproc o,< ic/X/Hy, — Bread baked or toasted... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1894 - 376 ページ
...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...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 would rob a poor bird of her... | |
 | Virgil - 1894 - 808 ページ
...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.... | |
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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... 
