| Ossian - 1805 - 648 ページ
...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 where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear ; ing foe arose. We rushed on in the sound of our arms. Their crowded steps... | |
| Salomon Gessner - 1805 - 332 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear : She will say, ' 'twas a barbarous deed !' For he ne'er could be true, she... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 ページ
...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 the wood-pigeons breed: But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a harharous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd,... | |
| William Shenstone, Thomas Park - 1808 - 342 ページ
...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 ne'er could be true, she averr'd,... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 ページ
...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 where the wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, She will say twas a barbarous deed. • For he ne'er coulJ be true, she averr'd,... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 ページ
...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 where the 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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 ページ
...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 ne'er could be true, she averr'd,... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 386 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 where the 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,... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 330 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 where the 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,... | |
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