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" When to myself I act, and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook-side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly : Nought so... "
Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses - Page 91
by John Ferriar - 1812
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes ...

Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...Whether I tarry still or go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And...
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Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which ..., Volume 3

English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me surprise ; Whether I tarry still, or go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought...beguile ; By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought-for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 3

George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...then tyrannise, Fear and sorrow me surprize ; Whether I tarry still, or go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought...beguile, By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought-for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. . All...
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The Anatomy of Melancholy,: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes ..., Volume 1

Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...Whether I tarry still or go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood se green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And...
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The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior, Volume 1

Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...Whether 1 tarry still or go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefes to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And...
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The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays, Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...Fear and sorrow me surprise ; Whether I tarry still or go, Methinks the time mores very slow. All iny griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy....smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a. brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen ; A thousand pleasures do me bless,...
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Musarum Deliciae: Or, the Muses Recreation, Contening Severall ..., Volume 2

Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pages
...time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to my self I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me blesse, And...
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Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: Epigrams

English poetry - 1817 - 524 pages
...time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. i When to my self I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me blesse, And...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1819 - 426 pages
...time moves very slow : All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as Melancholy. When to my selfe I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures doe me bless, And...
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Annual Register, Volume 35

Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 758 pages
...me then tyrannize, Fear and sorrow me surprize ; Whether I tarry still or go Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy, &c. There is a direct imitation of these verses in VultairĀ»'i ' Jean qui pleure, & Jean qui rit.'...
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