 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1855 - 412 pages
...Moon-light 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. [Tradition 1ms given these verses to Beaumont, though... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves: Moonlight walks, where all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a passing groan,...valley; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...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 : Then stretch...valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy. An Honest Man's Fortune. By Fletcher. Oh , man ! thou image of thy Maker's good, What canst thou fear... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Conduct of life - 1856 - 418 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." That this is beautifully expressed we do not deny... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves: Moonlight walks, where all tho fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls; A midnight bell, a passing groan,...valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. BUVKOBT. THE LIFE OF MAN. Like to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of cnglcs are, Or like the... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 280 pages
...Moonlight walks where 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. These dainty lines leave a sweet relish behind them... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...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 ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Milton was possibly under some obligations to this... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 286 pages
...all the fowls, Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These arc the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. These dainty lines leave a sweet relish behind them... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...Are warmly hous'd save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds •vie feed upon: Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley , Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy.1 » " Lately Melancholy."— Tradition has given these verses to Beaumont, though they... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1859 - 742 pages
...the fowls Are warmly housed, save bate and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are ttie sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's eo dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. Enterat another rfoorLAper, the disauited Lady's... | |
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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... 
