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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... "
A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Page 390
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...thy gifts apply ; Unafk'd, what good thou knowefl grant ; What ilj, though afk'd, deny. Compafllon. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...: But let me that plunder forbear ! She will fay, 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, (lie averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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...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 its...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...gifts apply ; . Unask'd what good thou knowest grant ; What ill, though ask'd, deny. Compassion. 1 have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed t But let me that plunder forbear ! . , She will say, 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true,...
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order

George Crabb - English language - 1816 - 788 pages
...blow, Inhuman she, but more i, tintinan thon. DRYDEN. I have found out a {.if! for my fair, I hj»e found where the wood-pigeons breed, but let me that plunder forbear, She will say r« as л barbarous deed. StfENSTONE. The play vas acted at the other theatre, and the ¿rural...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...sing, And tbt rich sbnU remember ibefmr. CHAPTER CXXVII. TENDERNESS OF MIND— On taking cflirft nais. I HAVE found out a gift for my fair ; I have found...breed ; But let me that plunder forbear ! She will iay 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its young...
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The Child's Instructor: Consisting of Easy Lessons for Children ...

John Ely - Readers - 1817 - 124 pages
...Each bird shall harmoniously join In a concert su soft and so clear, As she may not be fond to resign1 have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where...breed*; But let me that plunder forbear, -She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she avcrr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...thy gifts apply ; nask'd, what good thou knowest grant v What ill, though aek'd, deny. Compassion. have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood pigeons breed r t let roe that plunder forbear ! She will uy 'tie a barbarous deed. r he ne'er...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...bird shall harmoniously join In a concert so soft and so clear, As— sho may not be fond to resign. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found out the wood-pigeon's breed: But let me that plunder forbear, She will lay 'twas a barbarous deed....
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The Classical Journal, Volume 18

Classical philology - 1818 - 444 pages
...literally imitated by Virgil, but Mr. Shenstone has made a new and nobler use of it in his pastoral ballad. 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. &c. &c. Shenstone. în the sixth Idyllium, Daphnis singing tells Polyphemus...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 18

Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...imitated by Virgil, but Mr. Shenstone has made a new and nobler use of it in his pastoral ballad. 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. &c. &c. Shenstone. In the sixth Idyllium, Daphnis singing tells Polyphemus...
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