| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia), Lucy Aikin - 1825 - 434 pages
...without thought or feeling be ? 0 say what art thou, when no more thou 'rt thee ? «• Life ! we 've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...; 'Tis 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 ; Say not... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1826 - 794 pages
...by which she declared that she was made happier : Life! we've been long together In pleasant and in cloudy weather: Tis hard to part when friends are...Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear — Then steal away; give little warning, Choose your own time ; Say not, Good night, but in some brighter clime Wish me... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1826 - 336 pages
...thee 1 VOL. I. 15 Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; 'T is 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 in some brighter clime Bid me... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...(as she did every night) Mrs. Barbauld's solemn-sweet stanza, composed when she too was very old — Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not Good Night, but in some brighter clime Bid me Good... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1901 - 788 pages
...But 1 know that thou and 1 must part. And when, and where, or how we met, 1 own to me's a secret yet. "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 in some brighter clime bid me good... | |
| 1920 - 850 pages
...are as follows: Life! We've been long together. Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'T is 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 in some brighter clime Bid me... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...Ajid not unseen, though a spirit, dost look down upon us from the stars." TO LIFE. BY MRS. BARBAULD. Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant...hard to part, when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cause a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not good night,... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...unseen, though a spirit, dost look down upon us from the stars. TO LIFE. BY MRS.-BARBADLD. Life ! wejve been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...hard to part, when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cause a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not good night,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...make Mrs. Barbauld in her old age look upon death with calm, in the following beautifal lines— " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. 'Tis hard to part v.hen friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning, Choose... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...deep feeling. " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather. "Tig 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, in some happier clime, Bid me... | |
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