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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 gloomy... "
Characters and Criticisms - Page 76
by William Alfred Jones - 1857
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...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...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
...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...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
...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...: 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 British Poets ...

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...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 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
...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...: 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
...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...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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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 3

James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 346 pages
...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...; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." Had our violent declaimers lived at present, when the orchestras of the theatres are filled with performers...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to ...

James Peller Malcolm - Costume - 1811 - 348 pages
...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...; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." Had our violent declaimers lived at present, when the orchestras of the theatres are filled with performers...
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The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 4

Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - English drama - 1811 - 612 pages
...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 notching his...
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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
...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* tcatching hit...
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