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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... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ... - Page 304
by James Boswell - 1786
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 2

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...heart ! Yet I thought—but it might not be so — 'Twis with paia that she uw 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.— Abtence. Day. xv. Cal. 18. 3r. John Dee, 1527, London. /achary Ursinus, 1534, Emla*. Dr....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...he was a ' [For th» letter the editor ie indebted to the Macleod. — ED.] 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." He said, " That seems to be pretty." I observed that Shenstone, from his short maxims in prose,...
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Supplement to the Musical Library

1834 - 358 pages
...heart! J 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. 2. Methinks she might like to retire To the grove I have labour'd to rear, For whatever I heard...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...1 [For this letter the editor 'a indebted to the present Macleod. — ED.] good layer-out of land, nks for all civilities. We were carried to the vessel...had, and we set sail very briskly about one o'clock. return." He said, " That seems to be pretty." I observed that Shenstone, from his short maxims in prose,...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1835 - 472 pages
...thought (but it might not be so) 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. r SHENSTONE. 3(53 She gaz'd, as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern ; . . So sweetly she hade me adieu, I thought that she hade me return. In the second, this passage has its prettiness, though...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...my heart " Yet I thought (but it might not be so) 'Twas with pain that~ahe 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 : — 1...
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The Young Lady's Reader

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...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, 1 thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far distant shrine,...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1839 - 836 pages
...Melbourne cahinet have been doing, almost in the language of the conscious favourite in Shenstone : * " She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she hade me adieu, That 1 thought that she hade me return." Will any man say that it is right or English...
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Penruddock

Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 346 pages
...inscribed on the frame of the picture : " She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could scarcely discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." Spite of his after-wrongs, this impression could never be forgotten ; and, what is more, he...
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Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'.

Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...inscribed on the frame of the picture : " She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could scarcely discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." Spite of his after-wrongs, this impression could never be forgotten; and, what is more, he...
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