 ... melody, Towns, palaces, and cities fine ; Here now, then there ; the world is mine, Rare beauties, gallant ladies shine, Whate'er is lovely or divine. All other joys to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts,...  The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Page 277by Walter Scott - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...shine, What e'er is lovely or divine. All other joys to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends...apes, Doleful outcries, and fearful sights, My sad and dismall soul affrights. All my griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as melancholy. Me thinks I... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...shine, Whate'er is lovely or divine. All other joys to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends...Headless bears, black men, and apes. Doleful outcries, fearful sights, My sad and dismal soul affrights. All my griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends : — my fantasy Presents a thousand ugly shapes, Headless bears, black...griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as melancholy. Methinks I court, methinks I kiss, Methiaks I now embrace my miss : 0 blessed days, O sweet content... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, Heads ; my phantasie Presents a thousand ugly shapes, Headless...apes, Doleful outcries, and fearful sights, My sad ml dismall soule affrights. All my griefs to this are jolly, Non« so damn'd as melancholy. Me thinks... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...shine, What e'er is lovely or divine. All other joyes to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends...shapes, Headless bears, black men, and apes, Doleful outcryes, and fearful sights, My sad .ind diemall soule affrights. All my griefes to this are jolly,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...shine, Whate'er is lovely or divine. All other joys to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends,...Headless bears, black men, and apes, Doleful outcries, fearful sights, My sad and dismal soul affrights. All my griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 490 pages
...shine, Whate'er is lovely or divine. All other joys to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends,...Headless bears, black men, and apes, Doleful outcries, fearful sights, My sad and dismal dbul affrights. All my griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd aa... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...shine, Whate'er is lovely or divine. All other joys to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends...griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as melancholy. BURTON'S ANATOMY, eighth edition, 1676. No. XCIX. Sadden she storms 1 she raves ! you tip the wink:... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 524 pages
...Headlesse beares, black-men and apes, Dolefull outcries, and fearefull sights, My sad and dismall soule affrights. All my griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as melancholy. Me thinks I court, me thinks I kisse, Me thinks I now embrace my mistriss. O blessed dayes, O sweet... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pages
...Headlesse bears, black-men and apes, Dolefull outcries, and fearfull sights, My sad and dismall soule affrights. All my griefs to this are jolly, None so damn'd as melancholy. Me thinks I court, me thinks I kisse, Me thinks I now embrace my Mistriss. 0 blessed dayes, O sweet... | |
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