| 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.... | |
| Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - 368 ページ
...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...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 averr'd, Who would rob a poor bird of... | |
| Alexander Francis Chamberlain - 1895 - 482 ページ
...golden age, that other Eden where love is over all. Shenstone, in his beautiful pastoral, says : — " I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed," and the " love of the turtle," " billing and cooing," are now transferred to human affection. Venus,... | |
| William Cowper - 1896 - 196 ページ
...Stil1. Hence the name is applied to any country fellow. 27. A gift ... fair. Cf. Shenstone's song : " 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." Yorfair see note, p. 70, 1. 26. 28. dray (or drey), a squirrel's nest.... | |
| George Crabb - 1896 - 870 ページ
...Love lent the sword, the mother struck the blow, /HhutiuiH she, but more inhuman thon. DETDBN. I hare 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. SHENSTONE. The play was acted at the other theatre, and the bruhil petulance... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 ページ
...contemporaries by its mellifluous seesaw, and its jingling resonance comes back to the reader of to-day. " I have found out a gift for my fair: I have found where the wood -pigeons breed." The elegiac form and triple rhythm please the fancy in the still remembered "Yet... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 490 ページ
...contemporaries by its mellifluous seesaw, and its jingling resonance comes back to the reader of to-day. "I have found out a gift for my fair: I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." The elegiac form and triple rhythm please the fancy in the still remembered "Yet time may diminish... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 ページ
...strove With the lilac to render it gay ! Already it calls for my love To prune the wild branches away. 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,... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 ページ
...four parts and in a tripping anapestic measure. Familiar to most readers is the stanza beginning: " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." Dr. Johnson acknowledged the prettiness of the conceit: " So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that... | |
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