 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...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. SONG. [In a Masque.] YE should stay longer if we durst... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ;. 53 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.." N. Milton begins the Allegro in praise of mirth... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly nous'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. SONG. [In " The Masque," &c.J YE should stay longer... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...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 dainiy sweet as lovely melancholy. SON G In the Queen of Corinth. 'TT/'EEP no more, nor... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 802 pages
...walkes, when all the fowk>s Are varmely hous'd save bats and owles ; A midnight bell, a parting groane, These are the sounds we feed upon : Then stretch our...gloomy valley, Nothing so dainty, sweet, as lovely melancholly. THK FOURTH SONG. A cctse upon ttee for a slave ; Art thou here and hoard'st me rave Tlie... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...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. 24 IX. RIVER GOD'S COURTSHIP. FLETCHER. I AM this... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - Costume - 1811 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - English drama - 1811 - 612 pages
...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 sweet3* as lovely melancholy. [En!. Enter at another door Lapet, the Cupid's Brotfters... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...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. It is, I think, almost impossible for the strongest... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 630 pages
...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 sweet3* as lovely melancholy. [Exit. Enter at another door Lapet, the Cupid's Brother*... | |
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A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! 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... 
