 | 1839 - 894 pages
...mortifies ; A look that'll fastened to the ground ; A tongue chained up without a sound. " Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves...a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet aa lovely melan« choly." An attempt of the present kind would be very incomplete, if we omitted from... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pages
...Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Arc warmly housed, save bats and owls. A midnight bell,...gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melan« choly." An attempt of the present kind would be very incomplete, if we omitted from our selection... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1840 - 746 pages
...Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan I These are the sounds wo feed upon ; Then stretch our bones In a still gloomy...; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Enterat another door LAPET. (Ac disguised Lady's Brothers watching his coming. \ Bra. So, so ! the... | |
 | william gardiner - 1841 - 500 pages
...and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves, Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are safely housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a parting...upon. Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing so dainty sweet as melancholy. The just expression with which the English language was set,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bate and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan! These are thc sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still...Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. The JW« Valour. In these last verses the reader may observe, that the human feeling of the votary of melancholy,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...nights, In which you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, 376 377 Then stretch our limbs in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy."— pp. 1<J7, 198. Though it would appear that Mr. Neele кая not disposed to confide in the hopes held... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ;1 Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a parting groan,...: Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; JVothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy.3 2" Lovely Melancholy."—Tradition has given these... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves; i Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a parting groan,...upon: Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy. 2 2 "Lovely Melancholy."—Tradition has given these... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...Moon-light walks, where all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan, These are the sounds we feed upon : Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." It has been supposed (and not without every appearance... | |
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Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls... 
