 | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 1871 - 336 pages
...Certainly / shan't try anything so hopeless as comforting a person who is resolved to be miserable. ' There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could, be gay.' There's a quotation for you, as you like verses — particularly what I call moping verses." " Come,... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pages
...Autumn her apples in thy bosom throws, And Winter clothes thee with her whitest snows. CHERISHED LOVE. Go — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not...in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh 1 if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 768 pages
...changing scene As inl -•• and dieting as 'tis I'.ir. SAMUEL ROGERS. Born 1763. Died 1855. TO . Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall...bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy. There is a pretty song on Melancholy in Beaumont and Fletcher1! •'... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 pages
...all son-ne, But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, SAMUEL ROGERS. Bora 1763. Died 1855. TO . Go—you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my...bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy. There is a pretty song on Melancholy in Beaumont and Fletcher's ••... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...roll ; The rising motion of an infant ray Shot glimm'ring through the cloud, and promised day. PRIOR. Go — you may call it madness, folly,— You shall...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay ! ROGERS. Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden... | |
 | 1875 - 432 pages
...dwell, O, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! CAPTAIN CHARLES MOERIS. 2.. 5 TO . /""* O — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. O, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 694 pages
...as lyrical effnsions proper. One would be reminded by Fletcher's lyric of Rogers' rather namby-pamby •There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay," were it not that Fletcher's song is in intention dramatic, which Rogers' lines are not 1 Mr. Fleay,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...of Drake. * Compare Bacon, Of Adversity ; Goldsmith, The Captivity ; Wordsworth's Prelude, Book ix. Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away I There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay. Mine be a cot beside the hill... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 658 pages
...effusions proper. One would be reminded by Fletcher's lyric of Rogers' rather namby-pamby • There 's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay,' were it not that Fletcher's song is in intention dramatic, which Rogers* lines are not. 1 Mr. Fleay,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...thoughts belong to heaven and thce ! And may the secret of thy soul Remain within its sanctuary ! TO . O, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
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Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. 
