 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 pages
...alone. When forc'd the fair nymph to forgo, What anguish I felt at my heart ! Vet I thought — but it might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd, as 1 slowly withdrew : My path 1 could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...more. When forc'd the fair nymph to forego, What anguish I felt in my heart ! Yet I thought (but it might not be so) 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart....I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern i So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. In the second this passage has its... | |
 | Jane Harvey - 1812 - 894 pages
...When forc'd 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." vOL. n. U And often would he consecrate the efforts of his muse to those loved recollections, and indulge... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pages
...Pastorals, but did not get through them. I repeated the stanza, ' She gazed as I slowly withdrew; My path [ could hardly discern ; So 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, appeared... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...through them. I repeated the stanza, She gazed as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly discern j / So 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, appeared... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...V. 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 thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
..."'.'*. When forc'd the fair nymph to forego, What anguish I felt in my heart ! Yet I thought (but it might not be so) 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart....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 have... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...my heart! Yet I thought, but it might not be so, 'Twas with pain when she saw me depart. She guz'd, as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern...; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bad--1 me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear but... | |
 | John Ely - 1817 - 124 pages
....12 'When forc'd the fair nymph to forego, What anguish I felt at my heart! Yet I thought—that it might not be so— 'Twas with pain that she saw me...could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, ,1 thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journies all day To visit some far distant nhrine.... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...alone. When forced the feir 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 conld hardly discern ; .So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought... | |
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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 gaz'd as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly discern: So sweetly she bade me adieu,... 
