 | Books - 1832 - 652 pages
...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 - 624 pages
...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 - 492 pages
...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 - 506 pages
...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 - 484 pages
...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 - 358 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 - 876 pages
...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 - 372 pages
...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 - 508 pages
...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 - 622 pages
...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... 
