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" 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. "
Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 - Page 58
by John Genest - 1832
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...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...valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. SONG. [In a Masque.] YE should stay longer if we durst Away. Alas, that he that first Gave time wild...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...pale Passion loves, 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...Nothing's so dainty, sweet, as lovely melancholy.." N. Milton begins the Allegro in praise of mirth by exclaiming, " Hence, loathed Melancholy !" He begins...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...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...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. SONG. [In " The Masque," &c.] YE should stay longer if we durst Away. — Alas, that he that first...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly nous'd save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan,...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. SONG. [In " The Masque," &c.J YE should stay longer if we durst Away. — Alas, that he that first...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures ..., Volume 17

Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...without a sound. Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight \valks, when all the fowls, Are warmly hous'd, save bats and...valley. Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy. QZ SAGACITY OF BRUTES. [Continued from page 88.] ^JAN is supposed to have been originally indebted,...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 17

1804 - 452 pages
...loves; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls, Are warmly hous'd, save hats and owls, A midnight bell—a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon....valley. Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy. SAGACITY OF BRUTES. [Continued from pag« 88.] MAN is supposed to have been originally indebted, for...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...mortifies; A look that's fasten' d to the ground, A tongue cham'd up without a sound* Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves;...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 sigh, nor groan,...
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English Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the ..., Volume 1

Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy. 24 IX. RIVER GOD'S COURTSHIP. FLETCHER. I AM this fountain's God. Below, My waters to a river grow,...
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The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...melancholy ! 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....valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy. It is, I think, almost impossible for the strongest and most lively imagination, to draw a design more...
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Love's cure; or, The martial maid. Women pleas'd. The night-walker; or, The ...

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 630 pages
...melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh tliut piercing mortifies, A look that's thsteu'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound...bones in a still gloomy valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet3* as lovely melancholy. [Exit. Enter at another door Lapet, the Cupid's Brother* tcatching hit...
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