 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish in literature - 1818 - 300 pages
...would not have denied being the author of that sweetly moral, and simply pastoral eclogue, — " " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeon breeds." " Oh, dacency ! Miss Crawley," interrupted her brother Darby, winking at the sub-sheriff... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1818 - 358 pages
...Shenstone's beautiful pastoral— " My banks they are furnished with bees," &c. till she came to— " I hav« found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." " There's some sense in that," cried the Doctor, who had been listening with great weariness. " You... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 386 pages
...bird shall harmoniously join In a concert BO soft and so clear, As — she may not be fond to resign. 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 aver'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 364 pages
...Shenstone's beautiful pastoral — " My banks they are furnished with bees," &c. till she came to — " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed." " There*s some sense in that," cried the Doctor, who had been listening with great weariness. " You... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...high my pray'r, Up to thy throne, my God, my King, To plead for pardon there ? Tenderness of Mind. I HAVE found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But all, let me that plunder forbear ! She will say 'tis a barbarov.s deed. For he ne'er can be true, sh-... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1820 - 464 pages
...loaded, father;" and falling into his sister's humour, very gracefully presented his basket, repeating, " I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed :" and all eyes being turned upon me and this mysterious basket, I uncovered it, and found two young... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...congessere palumhes." Examples. The two last liues are heautifully translated and improved hy Shenstune ; " I have found out a gift for my fair, I have found where the wood-pigeons hreed : But let me the plunder forhear, She will say 'twas a harharous deed." OSs. 3. Not ahove the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 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-pidgeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For 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... 
