 | 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 his Amarantha,... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - English poetry - 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 his Amarantha,... | |
 | British minstrel - 1848 - 480 pages
...thought, but it might not be 90, 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. To see, when my charmer goes by, Some hermit peep out of his cell. How he thinks of his youth with... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...not get throu them. I repeated the stanza, " She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly mes Boswell 8 He quotes this and some other stanzas from the poem in his Life of Sbenstone P. CUNNINGHAM. He said,... | |
 | James M'Henry - Braddock's Campaign, 1755 - 1848 - 468 pages
...with pain that she saw me deprirtShe gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could scarcely discern j 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...not be so) 'Twas with pain 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. But of all Shenstone's productions, his highest effort is The Schoolmistress, a descriptive poem in... | |
 | William Gardiner - Musicians - 1853 - 408 pages
...is more beautiful than the ballad SONG.— (PAGE 280, VOL. 1 .) " 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. " Had he been articled to a musician instead of a lawyer, the probability is he would never have written... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 pages
...— 'T was 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. 6 The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear but a relic away,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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... | |
 | William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 324 pages
...with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern : I So sweetly she bade me adieu, \I thought that she bade me return. 6 The pilgrim that journeys all day • To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear but a relic away,... | |
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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... 
