 | Books - 1832
...Moonlight walks when all the fowls Are safely housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon : Then stretch...a still gloomy valley, Nothing so dainty sweet as melancholy." ' The just expression with which the English language was set, placed the style of glee... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832
...Moon-light walks, 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 dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. 51. Honest Man's Fortune—the Honest Man is the... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834
...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 valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." The Nice Valour. In these last verses the reader may... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834
...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 valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." The Nice Valour. In these last verses the reader may... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834
...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 valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." The Nice falour. In these last verses the reader may... | |
 | Music - 1834 - 116 pages
...pale passion loves !— Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls I 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 ! Motley's favourite... | |
 | England - 1839
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Arc 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 valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melan« choly." An attempt of the present kind would be very... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840
...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 valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. SWEET day, so cool, so... | |
 | William Gadiner - 1841
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are safely housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon. Then stretch...a still gloomy valley, Nothing so dainty sweet as melancholy. The just expression with which the English language was set, placed the style of glee-writing... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825
...all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bate and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan! These are thc sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. The JW« Valour. In these last verses the reader may... | |
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A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! 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... 
