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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 Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...heart Г Yet I thought (but it mii-ht not be so) »Twas \vith pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd, very little of nature, and not much of life. He formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence, tliat she bade me return. In the second this passage has its prctuness, though it be not equal to the...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...Yet I thought (but it miiflit not be so) ' l'w:is with pain that she saw me depart. She srazed, aa 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...
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English grammar, for schools

John Lindsay (fellow of Dulwich coll.) - 1842 - 96 pages
...* Sometimes of nine, and having a syllable occasionally cut off at the beginning of the lines; as, So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." Iambic, trochaic, and anapatstic lines admit of occasional intermixture for the sake of variety...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...felt at my heart : Yet I thought — but it might not be so— Twas with pain that she saw me depart. return. The pilgrim that journies all day To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relic...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Yet I thought — but it might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as 1 mical harmony, though, like the redundant descriptions in the work, it becomes 1 thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journies all day To visit some far distant shrine,...
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Thirty Years Passed Among the Players in England and America: Intersperesed ...

Joe Cowell - 1844 - 112 pages
...steps at the street door, and departed. " She gazed as I slowly withdrew : My path 1 could scarcely discern. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." But I didn't, and have Never seen Anna since. CHAPTER XVII. " Say what abridgment have you...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...along imperceptibly. We talked of Shenstone. Dr. Johnson said, he was a 64. 415 good layer-out of land, but would not allow him to approach excellence as...poet. He said, he believed he had tried to read all hia " Love Pastorals," but did not get through them. I repeated the stanza, " She gazed as I slowly...
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The Early French Poets: A Series of Notices and Translations, Volume 23

Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 354 pages
...sa bouche de basme, D'un baiser redouble qui me deroba l'ame, En me disant adieu mepria du retour. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. The only poem in which I have observed any thing like an attempt to describe the person of...
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French poets

Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 388 pages
...sa bouche de basme, D'un baiser redouble qui me déroba l'ame, En me disant adieu mepria du retour. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. The only poem in which I have observed any thing like an attempt to describe the person of...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...excellence as a He said, he believed he had tried to read his " Love Pastorals," but did not get throu return." 8 He quotes this and some other stanzas from the poem in his Life of Sbenstone P. CUNNINGHAM....
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