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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Page 374
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 414 pages
...let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'et could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more, when I heard I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended the...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...that plunder forbear, * She will say 'twas a barbarous deed ; For he ne'er could be trne, she averted, 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 mentions the common places of amorous poetry with...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...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 : And I lov'd her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Xidtapk. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...plunder furbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr"d, Who would rob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. 1 have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to—...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Watts, A. Philips ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...furbear, She u ill say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who would i ob a poor bird of its young : And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. 1 have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to —...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...will say 't was a harharous deed: For he ne'er could he true, she averr'd, Who could roh a poor hird of its young ; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. In the third be mentions the common-places of amorous, poetry with...
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Vocal Poetry: Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...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 young : And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...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 young ; And I lov'd her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue. In the third he mentions the common-places of amorous poetry with...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...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 ; And I lov'd her the more, when I heard •Such tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A vouth to fortune...
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The Flowers of Modern History: Comprehending on a New Plan, the Most ...

John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...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 young ; * " And I lov'd her the more when I heard " Such tenderness tall from her tongue. " I have heard her with sweetness unfold " How that pity was due to...
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