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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 - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...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...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...thy gifts apply ; Unask'd, what good thou knowest 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-« barbaroas deed, For he ne'er can be true, she averr'd, Who can rob a poor bird of its...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 406 pages
...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 lot me that plunder forbear, For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...thy gifts apply j Unask'd, what good thou knowest grant.; What ill, though ask'd deny. Compassion. 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, 'tis a barbarous deed. For he ne'er...
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Bucolica, Aeneis, Georgica: The Greater Poems of Virgil, Volume 1

Virgil - 1886 - 810 pages
...love, ie a wild pigeon's nest. — notavl locum, Í hart marked the spot. Compare Shenstone: — " I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." 69. quo, locative ablative. — congesscre, have tuili : sc. nldiini. The wood-pigeon is sacred to...
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Virgil, Bucolics: Introduction and text

Virgil - Country life - 1887 - 222 pages
...built.' For aeriae cp. 1. 571 Shen stone has imitated this in the lines beginning, ' I have found oo: a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.' 73. He means that Galatea's words are fit to charm the ears of gods. Others take referatis, etc., to...
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Scriptores Erotici Græci: The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and ...

Heliodorus (of Emesa.) - 1889 - 576 pages
...Veneri aunt prsemia ; namque notavi, Ipse locum aerise quo congesssre palumbes." Virg. Ec. iii. 68. " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." Shenstone. •f' t\aipi — t^aipev. + ovStv ;pi0wv Siaijiipii, § aprof oj3eXiaf, — Bread baked...
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A Japanese Boy

Shiukichi Shigemi - Botanists - 1889 - 508 pages
...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 : Bat let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true,...
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...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...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...
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English Poetry and Poets

Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...stanzas from Shenstone, conned in the dear old "English Reader," delighted our tender infant heart : " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed : But, oh, let me this plunder forbear She will say 't was a barbarous deed; " For he ne'er can be true, she...
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