 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869
...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. — Ibid. VIRTUE. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 324 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. Song to Pan.1 All ye woods, and trees, and bow'rs,... | |
 | 1870 - 438 pages
...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. XLV LEWD LOVE IS LOSS Misdeeming... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 597 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 ! JOHN FORD. (1586-1639.) FORD Is one of the most... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871
...Melancholy ! Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd on the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound ;...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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hons'd, save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan,...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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871
...Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats ami owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan, These are...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... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 330 pages
...queen, departed from thy shore. But me the gods' commands, which force 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... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 608 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. TO SLEEP. [From Valentinian. ] CARE-CHARMINO Sleep,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872
...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. VIRTUE. SWEET day ! so cool, so calm, so bright,... | |
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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... 
