 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.  The Scots Magazine - Seite 2601764Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 Seiten
...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 Sucli tenderness fall from her tongue. Epitaph. Here rests, his head upon the lap of earth, A youth... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1823 - 872 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1823 - 68 Seiten
...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... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1823 - 462 Seiten
...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 - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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