| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...Moon-light walks, where all the fowls Are warmly hous'd, save bats and owls ; A midnight bell, a passing groan, These are the sounds we feed upon : Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." It has been supposed (and not without every appearance... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...chain'd up without a sound. Fountain heads and pathless groves, - Places which pale passion loves;1 Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd save bats and owls ; A midnight hell, a parting groan, These are the sounds -v;e feed upon : Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...that's fasten'd to the ground ; A tongue chain'd up without a sound. Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ; Moonlight walks,...! Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley : Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy. PROM THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS. BY FLETCHEH. Satyr.... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 402 pages
...tongue chain'd up without a sound. Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves;1 Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly hous'd...: Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing so dainty sweet as lovely Melancholy.1 I cannot help thinking that a couplet has been lost... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1846 - 724 pages
...fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! 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 ;... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - Periodicals - 1846 - 694 pages
...fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! 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 ;... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...fastcn'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, s dainty-sweet as lovely melancholy. [Sony.] CProm the ' Falee One.'] Look out, bright eyes, and bless... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound 1 Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which ¡talc storm ; if it be lore, Like Danae in that golden shower,...that's but from hell releas'd; Then crown my joys or c dainty-sweet as lovely melancholy. [From the ' False One.'] Look out, bright eyes, and bless the air... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls I A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...sympathizes. In the green solitude he finds a dearer home than with men. " Fountain-heads and 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... | |
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