 | William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 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-writing... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves, Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are safely housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a passing groan, These are the sounds we feed upon." Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates ;... | |
 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves, Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are safely housed, save bats and owls, A midnight bell, a passing groan, — These are the sounds we feed upon.' " Behold there in the wood the fine madman ! He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights ; he dilates... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bate and owls! A midnight bell, a parting groan! These are thc sounds we feed upon; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. The JW« Valour. In these last verses the reader may... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves : Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan. These are the sounds we Iced upon : Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy та!';.' Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancb... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 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. 2 2 "Lovely Melancholy."—Tradition has given these verses to Beaumont, though they appeared for the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...fowls 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.* 2" Lovely Melancholy."—Tradition has given these verses to Beaumont, though they appeared for the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...fowls 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.* 2" Lonely Melancholy."—Trad1tion has given these verses to Beaumont, though they appeared for the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 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 ; JVothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy.3 2" Lovely Melancholy."—Tradition has given these... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...Are warmly hous'd save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds vrefeed upon: Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy.* a " Lately Melancholy"— Tradition has given these verses to Beaumont, though they appeared for the... | |
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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... 
