 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
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! These are the sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. A midnight bell, a parting groan ! EOBEET HEEEICK: 1591—1674. To Blossoms. FAIB pledges of a fruitful... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These arc the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." The Nice Valour was not printed till 1647, two years after L' Allegro and // Penseroso were printed,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...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. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. MOODS. OUT upon it: I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...[thirty]. One of these writers makes Bellario, the page, say to Philaster, who threatens to take his tue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation But here was youth, genius, aspiring hope, growing reputation, cut off like a flower in its summer... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 334 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." Keats disclosed by certain lines in his " Hyperion " this inward skill ; and Coleridge showed at least... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 304 pages
...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." The third act of " The Bloody Brother" was probably not by Fletcher, but the drinking song in it might... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These arc the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." It was Francis Beaumont also who wrote the lines on Life, which may remind the reader of similar but... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads - 1878 - 764 pages
...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. It is indeed a descent to come from this to our Bagford broadside, though it has merit of its own.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...as the Page, just before speaking of her life, which Philaster threatens to take from her, says : " 'Tis not a life ; Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away." Ben Jonson's serious productions are, in my opinion, superior to his comic ones. What he does, is the... | |
 | J C Hutchieson - 1878 - 634 pages
...owls ! A midnight hell, 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 ! THE BRITISH GRENADIERS. SOME talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules, Of Hector and Lysander, and... | |
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