 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 pages
...fixed eyes, A. sight that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless...Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. THE PASSIONATE LORD. A CURSE upon thee, for a slave ! -£*- Art thou here, and heardst me rave? Fly not... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves...Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. THE SATYR'S SPEECH, FROM THE " FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS." Thorough yon same bending plain, That flings his... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 412 pages
...Tamburlaine — ' Pale of complexion, wrought in him with pn.'sion.' " Imagination and Fancy, p. 212. Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed,...; Nothing's SO dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. [Tradition 1ms given these verses to Beaumont, though they appeared after his death, and perhaps after... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes,...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." That this is beautifully expressed we do not deny ; but that it conveys a true idea of the intentions... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...VieMleititn '.12 FRANCIS BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER. 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 ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy. An Honest Man's Fortune. By Fletcher. Oh , man ! thou... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...Moonlight walks, where all the fowls Are warmly housed, 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. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the falling of a star, Or as... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 280 pages
...sound ! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! Moonlight walks where all the fowls, Are warmly housed, save bats and owls!...valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. These dainty lines leave a sweet relish behind them : after reading which, the reader will acknowledge... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...groves, — Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan...; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Milton was possibly under some obligations to this song when he wrote his " II Penscroso." Hazlitt... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...all the fowls, Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These arc the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. These dainty lines leave a sweet relish behind them : after reading which, the reader will acknowledge... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...Moonlight walks, where all tho fowls Are warmly housed, 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. BUVKOBT. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the falling of a... | |
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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... 
