 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - Страниц: 348
...Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls. A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon. Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." Had our violent declaimers lived at present, when... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - Страниц: 492
...the fowls " Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ! " A midnight bell, a parting groan ! " These aie the sounds we feed upon ; " Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : " Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy." 82. " A Preaty Interlude, called " NICE WANTON.'" i. " Wherein... | |
 | 1813 - Страниц: 716
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon. Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. HOMX. Mrs. Grant of Laggan, has recently issued from... | |
 | Richard Clark - 1814 - Страниц: 530
...Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are safely hous'd, save bats and pwls. A midnight bell ! a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ! Then stretch...a still, gloomy valley, Nothing so dainty sweet as melancholy. Beaumont and Fletcher. GLEE for Four Voices. S. WEBBE. HAIL ! Star of Brunswick ! f •... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - Страниц: 494
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls , Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.* * Act Hi. sc. 1. Milton, in his admirable poem entitled... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 894
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls. A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon. Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely mclan. choly." An attempt of the present kind would be very incomplete,... | |
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...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, sa\ e bats and owl* ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon , Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. 3M 007 Poetry. 908 STANZAS Addressed to a Lady in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - Страниц: 374
...As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest...the spirited introduction to Milton's II Penseroso. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . . . . But hail, thou Goddess,... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - Страниц: 820
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are wannly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. The Nice Valour. In these last verses the reader may... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Страниц: 468
...motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing'^ so dainty sweet, as lovely Melancholy. 1. Hence vain deluding joys, .V.] From a distich, as Mr. Bowie observes, in Sylvester, the translator... | |
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Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still... 
