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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 Cyclopędia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...1. They say he parted well, and paid his score; And so, God be with him. to. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 7. $ & &h< - .'•. SHENSTONE — A Pastoral. Pt. I. Must we port? Well, if— we must— we must — And in that...
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Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West ...

Rev. Alexander STEWART (F.S.A., Scot.) - Folklore - 1883 - 438 pages
...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 alas, and wee the while ! William Shenstone of the Leasowes, with his many tuneful contemporaries,...
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Outlines of the Art of Elocution

James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...sigh And I grieve that I priz'd them no more. 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. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood pigeons breed ; But let me that plunder...
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Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West ...

Alexander Stewart (F. S. A. Scot.) - Folklore - 1883 - 444 pages
...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 alas, and woe the while ! William Shenstone of the Leasowes, with his many tuneful contemporaries,...
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Nether Lochaber: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West ...

Rev. Alexander Stewart - Folklore - 1883 - 436 pages
...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 alas, and woe the while ! 'William Shenstone of the Leasowes, with his many tuneful contemporaries,...
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Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.1 Written on a Window of an Inn. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. A Pattoral. Part i. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed....
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Life, Volume 76

1965 - 1258 pages
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 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 mo return. 40 The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If ho bear but a...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together With, The Journal of a ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 544 pages
...get through them. I repeated the stanza,1 " 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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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...of the lines is often sweet and true. Thus : 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 the sentiment becomes ridiculous when the " deserted swain" utters his complaint in the following...
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