 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a parting groan,...valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. SONG. [In a Masque.] YE should stay longer if we durst Away. Alas, that he that first Gave time wild... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...pale Passion loves, Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ;. 53 A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds...Nothing's so dainty, sweet, as lovely melancholy.." N. Milton begins the Allegro in praise of mirth by exclaiming, " Hence, loathed Melancholy !" He begins... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 474 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan,...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. SONG. [In " The Masque," &c.] YE should stay longer if we durst Away. — Alas, that he that first... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...loves; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls, Are warmly hous'd, save hats and owls, A midnight bell—a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon....valley. Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy. SAGACITY OF BRUTES. [Continued from pag« 88.] MAN is supposed to have been originally indebted, for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan...: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy. 24 IX. RIVER GOD'S COURTSHIP. FLETCHER. I AM this fountain's God. Below, My waters to a river grow,... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 348 pages
...pathless groves, Places which passion loves ; Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls. A midnight bell, a parting groan,...; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." Had our violent declaimers lived at present, when the orchestras of the theatres are filled with performers... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves; Moon-light walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls. A midnight bell, a parting groan,...valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely melancholy. It is, I think, almost impossible for the strongest and most lively imagination, to draw a design more... | |
 | 1813 - 716 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale Passion loves; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a parting groan,...valley: Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. HOMX. Mrs. Grant of Laggan, has recently issued from her poetical loom a fabric, whose texture exhibits... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...groves. Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks, when all the fowls , Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan,...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,... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...mortifies ; A look that's fastened to the ground ; A tongue chained up without a sound. " Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves...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... | |
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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 gloomy... 
