 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...not be 90, She was sorry to see me depart, She cast such a languishing view, My path I could scarcely discern: So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. To see, when my charmer goes by, Some hermit peep out of his cell. How he thinks of his youth... | |
 | James M'Henry - 1848 - 470 pages
...with pain that she saw me deprirtShe gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could scarcely discern j So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. " The pilgrim that journeys all day, To visit some far distant shrine. If he bear but a relic... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...slipped along imperceptibly. We talked of Shenstoue. Dr. Johnson said he was a good layer-out of land, but would not allow him to approach excellence as...get through them. I repeated the stanza : — " She Razed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, • I thought... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...anguish I felt in my heart! Yet I thought (but it might not be so) 'Twas with pain she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly...sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. But of all Shenstone's productions, his highest effort is The Schoolmistress, a descriptive... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...anguish I felt in my heart ! Yet I thought (but it might not be so) 'Twas with pain she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly...; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she hade me return. But of all Shenstone's productions, his highest effort is The Schoolmistress, a descriptive... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...at my heart : Yet I thought — but it might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. ual to Burns: — 0 bonny are our greensward hows, Where through th eiveetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journiei all day To... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1853 - 408 pages
...the ballad SONG.— (PAGE 280, VOL. 1 .) " She cast such a languishing view, My path I could scarcely discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu ; I thought that she bade me return. " Had he been articled to a musician instead of a lawyer, the probability is he would never... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 pages
...at my heart ! Yet I thought — but it might not be so — 'T was with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly...sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. 6 The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear but a relic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...my heart ! Yet I thought (but it might not be so) 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd, as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern...sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." In the second this passage has its prettiness, though it be not equal to the former : " I... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 324 pages
...felt at my heart ! Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern : I So sweetly she bade me adieu, \I thought that she bade me return. 6 The pilgrim that journeys all... | |
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When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I... 
