 | Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 550 ページ
...and it does not admit a mixture of any other feet. The following is a specimen of this kind of verse: 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 avefr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 ページ
...return1.' In the second this passage has its prettiness, though it be not 27 equal to the former : ' 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 could rob a poor bird of... | |
 | 1864 - 612 ページ
...could hardly discern ; So sweetly ehe bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. * ' » » * * * 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 averred, Who could rob a poor bird of her... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 ページ
...shall harmoniously join 30 In 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...wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, 35 She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averred, Who would rob a poor... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 ページ
...shall harmoniously join 30 In 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...wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear, 35 She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averred, Who would rob a poor... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy, Arabella Kenealy - 1908 - 350 ページ
...humanising influence which the well-known lines of Shenstone had upon me when a boy of nine or ten:— " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood pigeons breed, But let me that blunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. ' For he... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1909 - 374 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 where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me such plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er could be true, she averred,... | |
 | Robert Thomas Kerlin - 1910 - 228 ページ
...— One would think she might like to retire, To the bower I've labored to rear. Pt. 2, st. 5. — 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. THOMAS BLACKLOCK. On the Death of Mr. Pope: An Elegy, c. 1745. ALLUSION... | |
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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... 
