 | Fanny Aikin- Kortright - 1857 - 310 Seiten
...fond of repeating such quotations as — " She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could scareely discern ; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return!" Colonel Annesley had been desperately in love with Lady Adelaide Curzon, or, as he would have expressed... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 Seiten
...to forego, What anguish I felt in my heart ! Yet I thought (but it might not be so) 'Tvras with pain she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew,...bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. But of all Shenstone's productions, his highest effort is The Schoolmistress, descriptive poem in imitation... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 Seiten
...had tried to read all his " Love Pastorals," but did not get through them. I repeated the stanza, " _O}P}Q}R}S} V&j<} } }H{ } y ysz w$x \ \_2 { 3 He quotes this and some other stanzas from the same poem la his Life of Shenstoae. — P. CUNNINGHAM.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1914 - 872 Seiten
...he did. SHENSTONE. Wait a moment ! ' When forced the fair nymph to forgo, What anguish I felt in my heart ! Yet I thought — but it might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart.' JOHNSON. Ah, sir, there speaks the heart indeed. All is now explained, and your hyperbole excused.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 Seiten
...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 discern; So sweetly she bade me adien, I thought that she bade me return." He said: " That seems to be pretty." I observed that Shenstone,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1864 - 608 Seiten
...composition. Take the following specimens : " When forced 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 depait. She gazed as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern ; Sei sweetly she bade me adieu,... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 Seiten
...I could wander with pleasure alone. When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart : Yet I thought — but it might not be so —...she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day... | |
 | Cyril L. C. Locke - 1885 - 114 Seiten
...Dryden Homer, each translator would have done more justice to the peculiarities of his original. 64. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. 65. Triumphant arch, that fills the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud philosophy To... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 Seiten
...parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good-night till it be morrow WILLIAM SHAKESPEAKE. 'O sweetly she bade me "adieu," I thought that she bade me return. WILLIAM SHENSTONE. ' LL farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1904 - 376 Seiten
...» William Shenstone, b. 1714 ; d. 1763. His works (verse and prose) were published in 1764-69. Tet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with...she bade me Adieu I thought that she bade me return 1 " What should we think of that if we encountered it fresh in a corner of one of our Sunday newspapers... | |
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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... 
