 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...in this life sweet, If men were wise to sce't, But only melancholy, 'O sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that, piercing, mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound. Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh, that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound, Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 474 pages
...in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms, and fixed eyes; A sigh that, piercing, mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd to the ground ; A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain-heads and pathless groves,... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, 0 sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that, piercing, mortifies; A look that's fasten' d to the ground, A tongue cham'd up without a sound* Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...accidental, though not so very striking as in that before quoted. I submit it to my readers : Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound. The passage in Milton is so beautiful,... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...impression by which we are immediately influenced. Hence in a state of MF.LANCHOLV most welcome are, Folded arms, and fixed eyes ; A sigh, that piercing mortifies ; A look that's fasten' d to the ground ; A tongue chaiu'd up without a tound; Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
 | Richard Clark - Madrigals, English - 1814 - 530 pages
...this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing, mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd to the ground ; A tongue chain'd up — without a sound : Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Ob ! sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's faster, d to the ground, A tongue chain'd np -without a sound ! 907 Poetry. 908 STANZAS Addressed to... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads,' and pathless groves,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If rhan were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look (hat's fastended to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless... | |
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A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones... 
