 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Old age - 1854 - 252 pages
...at Hampstead. It was written in extreme old age, but with unfaded vigor of intellect. " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather, Tis hard to part where friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost both pang and tear : So, steal away, give little warning,... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Livermore - Denmark - 1855 - 326 pages
...Cupid in the kitchen among the pots and kettles all bcgrimmed and begreased thereby. " 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,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Table-talk - 1856 - 434 pages
...concluding stanza of Life* by Mrs. Barbauld, who composed it when she was very old ; " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...'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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers, William Maltby - Classicists - 1856 - 382 pages
...concluding stanza of Life* by Mrs. Barbauld, who composed it when she was very old ; " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...'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... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - Arts, British - 1860 - 440 pages
...him more than once repeat the concluding hues of Mrs. Barbauld's " Address to Life."* Life ! we have been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; * I once met Mrs. Barbauld at the house of Mr. Wm. Vaughan, at Clapham.... | |
 | Francis Meredith - 1860 - 326 pages
...wipe away all tears from our eyes.' " 170 CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH WE LOSE AN OLD FRIEND. " Life, we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill be a sigh, a tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time, Say not good... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...stuff, which is thread-bare to-day, May become everlasting to-morrow. CLXV — Collins Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy...'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... | |
 | Luther Goodyear Bingham - United States - 1863 - 240 pages
...matter among whom it is spent, and for whom it is laid down. The poet has well said— " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...'Tis hard to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh or tear ; Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time ; Say not... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 pages
...beautiful beyond utterance, in the radiancy of truth, hope, and peace. He may exclaim : " Life ! we've been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy...; "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 "... | |
 | REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1865 - 700 pages
...regard to the society's balance-sheets, year by year. CHAPTER XXVII. LOSSES AND GAINS. " la life we have been long together, Through pleasant and through cloudy weather ; "Tis hard to part wheu friends are dear, Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear." MRS. UAKBAULD. OP all who were affected... | |
| |
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... 
