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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... "
Pictures of the world at home and abroad, by the author of 'Tremaine'. - Page 238
by Robert Plumer Ward - 1839
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Prior. Congreve. Blackmore ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...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, 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 found out...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1810 - 438 pages
...not get through them. I repeated the stanza, She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I 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...
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Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most ...

John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...so, 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd, as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly s~he bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some faivdistant shrine, If he bear but a relique away,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 11

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd, as 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 prettyness, though ,t be not equal to the former : 1 have found...
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The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 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...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...— '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 that she bade me return. VI. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relique away,...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far distant shrine, If he bear but a relic away, Is...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 24

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 386 pages
...— '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, 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 away, Is...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...so— 'T was 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, I thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far distant shrine, If be bear but a relique away,...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...— '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 that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear but a relic away, Is...
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