 | C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 páginas
...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...wood-pigeons 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... | |
 | 1864 - 804 páginas
...seesaw. How its jingling resonance comes back to me to-day from the " Reader" book of the High School ! " 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 't was a barbarous deed. For... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 páginas
...encounter passages where Virgil has been openly imitated; thus in Shenstone's Pastoral Ballad the lines I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed are merely a happy rendering of a passage in Virgil's third Eclogue: Parta meae Veneri sunt munera;... | |
 | Philological Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 270 páginas
...syllable, or syllables, in anacrusi, to the beginning of the rhythm. Otherwise the verses are hexameters : I have | found out a | gift for my | fair; I have | found where the | wo6dpigeons | breed: But | 16t me that | plunder for[bea> j she will | say 'twas a | barbarous |... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 páginas
...Pastoral Ballad: Hope (1743) he condemned the common practice of robbing birds' nests. I have found 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: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its... | |
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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... 
