 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pagina’s
...thy gifts apply"; Unask'd what good thou kno west grant; What ill, though ask'd, deny. Compassion. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...breed ; But let me that plunder forbear! She will say 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pagina’s
...she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. In the second this passage has its prettiness, though it be not equal to the former : I have found...deed ; For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who conld rob a poor bird of its young ; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pagina’s
...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...true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And J lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard, her... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1823 - 68 pagina’s
...beloved consorts and to give them the pleasure to hear their praises ! SONG. LOVE LIKES TO IMITATE. I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found...true," she averr'd, " Who could rob a poor bird of its young ;" And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pagina’s
...for my love, To prune the wild branches away. " I have found out a gift for my fair,' I have fount! where the wood-pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder...true she averr'd Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I loved her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue." " In artless... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pagina’s
...to the former: 1 bave found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed: Bat let me that plunder forbear, , She will say 'twas...true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. In the third he... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 416 pagina’s
...wood-pigeon? — A passage, worthy the pen of Simonides, embellishes the bird, and endears it to humanity. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...wood-pigeons breed : But let me that plunder forbear ; She would say, 'twas a barbarous deed. " For he ne'er can be true," she averr'd, " Who can rob a poor bird... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 pagina’s
...could hardly discern; So sweetly she 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 1 d know not that the King of Heav'n hath doom'd This aver'd. Who could rob a poor bird of its young: And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pagina’s
...she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. In the second, this passage has its prettiness, though it be not equal to the former : I have found...true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. In the third, he... | |
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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... 
