 | Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ! Л midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we teed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet'4 as lovely melancholy. [£jef. tinter at anotfifr door Lupct, ft.r Cupid's Brothers watching... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 492 pages
...the fowls " Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ! " A midnight bell, a parting groan ! " These aie the sounds we feed upon ; " Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : " Nothing 's so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy." 82. " A Preaty Interlude, called " NICE WANTON.'"... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...loves ; Moonlight 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;...valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.* * Act Hi. sc. 1. Milton, in his admirable poem entitled II Penscroso, hat been indebted to these lines,... | |
 | Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...loves, Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are safely hous'd, save bats and pwls. A midnight bell ! a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon...Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley, Nothing so dainty sweet as melancholy. Beaumont and Fletcher. GLEE for Four Voices. S. WEBBE. HAIL... | |
 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...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....gloomy valley; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely mclan. choly." An attempt of the present kind would be very incomplete, if we omitted from our selection... | |
 | 664 pages
...loves! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, sa\ e bats and owl* ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. 3M 007 Poetry. 908 STANZAS Addressed to a Lady in Distress of Mind. THERE is a heart — a tender heart,... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pages
...owls, A midnight bell— a parting groan, These are the thoughts we feed upon ; Then itrrteh our boues in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy : Of this song the construction is particularly to be admired. It is divided into three parts. The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan, These are the sounds we feed upon : Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." It has been supposed ( and not without every appearance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan, These are the sounds we feed upon : Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." It has been supposed ( and not without every appearance... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are wannly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon...valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. The Nice Valour. In these last verses the reader may observe, that the human feeling of the votary... | |
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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... 
