 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 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... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Marriage - 1823 - 68 pages
...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. I have heard her with sweetness unfold, How that pity was due to a... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...let me that plunder forbear, She would 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. SECT. V. Of Didactic or Preceptive Poetry. Origin and THE method of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 404 pages
...plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, • she aven^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... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...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 young ; And I loved her the more, when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue." " In artless expression of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed. For he ne'er could be true, she aver'd. on sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone Majestie, tho tenderness fall from her tongue. I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to —... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...found where the woodpigeons breed ; But let me that plunder forbear, 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 commonplaces of poetry with some address... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed : For he ne'er could be true, she nverr'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 commonplaces of amorous poetry with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 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 youth to fortune... | |
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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. 
