 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 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 7a lour. In these last verses the reader may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls! A midnight bell, a parting ; Nothing's sg dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." MARLOWE. Tins great tragic poet was educated at... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
