 | Francis Beaumont - 1862
...all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls 1 A midnight bell, a parting grotm ! These aro the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's BO dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Enter at another floor LAPBT, the disguised Lady's... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862
...Moon-lit walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ; A midnight sigh, a parting Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themsel astill gloomy valley, — Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Beaumont. MELANCHOLY— Thoughtfulness... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves: Moonlight walks, where all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a passing groan,...valley; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 405 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. J. Ftetcher CV TO A LOCK OF HAIR THY hue, dear pledge, is... | |
 | Emily Taylor - English poetry - 1864 - 182 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...— Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. F. BEAUMONT. . PATIENCE. OWN ! stormy passions, down ! nor more Let your rude waves invade the shore... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864
...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. J. FLETCHER 11 88 Part II. g 304 1189 Part H. §... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 776 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves : Moonlight walks, where all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a passing groan,...valley; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. BKAVMOKT. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 376 pages
...groves, Places which pale passion loves, — Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan,...: 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 : —... | |
 | British Dramatists - Quotations, English - 1868 - 128 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A1 midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, .-Joining 's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Beaumont and Fletcher, ARGUMENT. Arguments, like... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! 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... | |
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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... 
