 When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly, None so sweet...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 791827Full view - About this book
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...go, Methinks the time runs very slow: All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts...bless, And crown .my soul with happiness. All my joys beside are folly, None so sweet as melancholy, &c.* The first four chapters of Tristram Shandy, are... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act, and smile, With pleasing thoughts...beguile ; By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought-for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act, and smile, With pleasing thoughts...beguile, By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought-for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. . All... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought-for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All iny joys besides are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, I... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood se green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefes to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...go, Melhinks the time moves very sl6w. AH my griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act, and smile, With pleasing thoughts...crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh, I grieve, making great... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...go, Methinks the time mores very slow. All iny griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a. brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen ; A thousand pleasures do me bless,... | |
 | John Ferriar - Book collecting - 1812 - 424 pages
...Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, x . With pleastng thoughts the time begmle, By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought...bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys beside are folly, None so sweet as melancholy, &c.* * The resemblance between these verses, and Milton's... | |
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