 | 1871 - 400 էջ
...give his recitation the effect of deep feeling. They were written by Mrs. Barbauld in her old age. " LIFE ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh or tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not good night ; but in... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1871 - 306 էջ
...lent to him by a friend particularly pleased him, and he transferred them to his note-book : — " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and...when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh or tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not Good night, but in some... | |
 | 1874 - 780 էջ
...stale them ? And she who wrote them, wrote not a little worthy to be remembered along with them: " Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and...through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends arc dear, — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine... | |
 | 1872 - 784 էջ
...gentle dismissal. In view of advancing years, it has been sweetly sung by an English poetess — " Life ! we've been long together. Through pleasant...through cloudy weather. Tis hard to part when friends arc dear ; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 էջ
...Through pleasant and through cloudy weather : 'T is hard to part when friends are dear ; Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Bay not Good Night, but in some brighter clime Bid me Good morning." LIFE. — Mrs. Barbauld. " Only... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 370 էջ
...what Mrs. Barbauld wished for, in that apostrophe to life which Wordsworth desired to have written : Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning. VOL. III. B I will make no attempt to describe... | |
 | 1872 - 778 էջ
...their gentle dismissal. In view of advancing years, it has been sweetly sung by an English poetess— " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not, good night, but in some happier clime • Bid me good morning." And the boon has often been vouchsafed... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 էջ
...But know that thou and I must part ; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me's a secret yet. Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and...give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not Good Night, — but, in some brighter clime, Bid me Good Morning ! ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD. UP-HILL.... | |
 | Book - 1872 - 326 էջ
...? Yet canst thou without thought or feeling be? Oh, say, what art thou, when no more thou'rt thee ? Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and...give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not " Good night," but in some brighter clime Bid me " Good morning." In his eighty-third year James Montgomery... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 650 էջ
...But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to mo 'в a secret yet. Life! we've been long together, Through pleasant and...friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a toar; Then, «teal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good-Night, — but in... | |
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Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but... 
