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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... "
Vocal Poetry: Or, A Select Collection of English Songs. To which is Prefixed ... - Page 26
by John Aikin - 1810 - 244 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...he had tried to read all his Love Pastorals, but did not get through them. I repeated the stanza, ' She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly...sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return3.' He said, ' That seems to be pretty.' I observed that Shenstone, from his short maxims in...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...that I priz'd them no more. When forc'd the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt in my heart I Yet 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 I could hardly discern ^ So sweetly sh; bade n;e adieu, I thought...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...grieve that I priz'd them no 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. She gaz'd, as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern ; > So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...? Yet I thought — hut it might not he so — Twas u Uh [HIITI that she saw me depart : She gaz'd as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she hade me adien, • The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he hear hut...
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - 1806 - 204 pages
...could wander with pleasure, alone. 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: She gaz'd, as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought...
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 2

Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 472 pages
...heart ! * * Quand je fus forcé d'abandonner la belle nymphe , quelle peine je sentis dans mon cœur .' Yet I thought — but it might not be so , Twas with pain that she savf me depart. .'•••.. '. ,' She gaz'd , as I slowly withdrew , My path I could hardly discern...
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Liste chronologique des poëtes anglais. Histoire de la poésie et des ...

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 472 pages
...forcé d'abandonner la belle nymphe , quelle peine je sentis dans mon cœur ï Yet I thought — but ît 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 I thought...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...heart! Yet I thought—hut it might not be so— 'Twas wilh pain that she saw me depart: She gaz'd as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she hade me adieu, The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear hut a...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pages
...believed he had tried to read all his Love Pastorals, but did not get through them. I repeated the stanza, She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly...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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The cabinet of poetry, containing the best entire pieces in the works of the ...

Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...could wander with pleasure, alone. When forc'd the fair nymph to forego, What anguish I feit at my heart : Yet 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 I could hardly discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought...
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