 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...  Boston Miscellany - Page 641842Full view - About this book
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. Solitude, Cap HI.— JG ZIMMERMAN. LIFE. Definitions of 'Tis not a life ; 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away. The life of man Is summ'd in birth-days and in sepulchres. Time: A Poem.— HK WHITE. Life that has... | |
 | W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 260 pages
...owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we dote upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. BEAUMONT. iDn ti)e Combo 1n Westm1nster, MORTALITY, behold and fear, What a charge of flesh is here... | |
 | W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 238 pages
...owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we dote upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. BEAUMONT. £>n tty Combo in caJestminster, MORTALITY, behold and fear, What a charge of flesh is here... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...owls ; A midnight bell, a passing 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. Here is a delicious lyric from the same source : — Look out, bright eyes, and bless the air ! Even... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...! 15 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. Beaumont and Fletcher. XLIV LEWD LOVE IS LOSS. Misdeeming eye ! that stoopeth to the lure Of mortal... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...! 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 ! JOHN FORD. (1586-1639.) FORD Is one of the most respectable of fhe second-class dramatic poets of... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...! 15 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. Beaumont and Fletcher. XLV LEWD LOVE IS LOSS Misdeeming eye ! that stoopeth to the lure Of mortal worths,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1913 - 558 pages
...believes) soothes him with the words: 'Alas, my lord, my life is not a thing Worthy your noble thoughts! 'tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.'* It is no wish of mine to say one word in dispraise of Philaster. It is a noble drama, the first, according... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871 - 910 pages
...owls ; A midnight bell, a passing 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 would be impossible so to economise my space as to give even a brief abstract of the comk subjects... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 376 pages
...me now 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." J. Fletcher, The Nice Valour, iii. 3. Any one can see Milton's obligations to this exquisite song for... | |
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