 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 pages
...— but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew. 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 hut a relic... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...at my heart ! Yet I thought — but it might not be BO — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed, as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could...sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." The nymph proves faithless ; and " disappointment " is the burden of the concluding part or... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path 1 could hardly discern ; 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...heart 1 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 ; So sweetly she bade me adien, I thought that she bade me return. SHENSTONE. — Pastoral Ballad, Part I. PROCRASTINATION.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 pages
...heart ! Yet I thought — but it mignt not be so, "Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd, as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, 1 thought that she bade me return." In the second this passage has its prettiness, though it be not... | |
 | 1866 - 522 pages
...Yet I thought — but it might not be so ! — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depai t : She gaz'd, as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, 1 thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far distant shrine,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 pages
...slipped along imperceptibly. We talked of Shenstone. Dr. Johnson said, he was a good layer-out of land, but would not allow him to approach excellence as...sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." Hd said, " That seems to be pretty." I observed that Shenstone, from his short maxims in prose,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pages
...slipped along imperceptibly. We talked of Shenstone. Dr. Johnson said, he was a good layer-out of land, but would not allow him to approach excellence as...Pastorals," but did not get through them. I repeated the stanza,1 " She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pages
...slipped along imperceptibly. We talked of Shenstone. Dr. Johnson said, he was a good layer-out of land, but would not allow him to approach excellence as...Pastorals," but did not get through them. I repeated the stanza,1 " She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - 376 pages
...published in 1764-69. Tet 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...sweetly she bade me Adieu I thought that she bade me return 1 " What should we think of that if we encountered it fresh in a corner of one of our Sunday... | |
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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... 
