 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...flows silently O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still — A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the resemblance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, First named these notes a melancholy... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1834 - 312 pages
...flows silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy" bird!i i " Most musical, most melancholy."'] This passage i Milton possesses an excellence far superior... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...soul, and of his worth, and our value of him; and 'it hath its praise in nature, and in manners, and And hark ! the nightingale begins its song, ' Most...idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. So sings the sweet poet. Are these the mere fancies of the brain, illusions of the imagination, or... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Folk literature - 1834 - 400 pages
...poem, when deriding the error of those who call the note of the nightingale melancholy', exclaims, " A melancholy bird ! Oh ! idle thought ! In nature...nothing melancholy : But some night-wandering man, whose soul was pierc'd 'With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 320 pages
...flows silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy" bird Ii i " Most musical, most melancholy."] This passage in Milton possesses an excellence far superior... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...high melody prevails with increasing power :— All is still, A balmy night! and tho' the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...stars. And hark? the nightingale begins its song. He crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1836 - 496 pages
...it flows silently O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...musical, most melancholy *" bird ! A melancholy bird? O idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. — But some night-wandring man, whose heart... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the stars be dim. Yet let us think upofi the venial showers That gladden the green earth, and we shall...hark! the Nightingale begins its song, Most musical, moat melancholy Bird ! A melancholy Bird? Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy.... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...night ! and tho' the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That gladden the creen earth, and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness...stars. And hark? the nightingale begins its song. He crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...it flows silently O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night! and though the stars be dim, Yet let us think upon the vernal showers That...musical, most melancholy *" bird ! A melancholy bird ? O idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. — But some night-wandring man, whose heart... | |
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Of sullen light, no obscure trembling hues. Come, we will rest on this old mossy bridge ! You see the glimmer of the stream beneath, But hear no murmuring : it flows silently, O'er its soft bed of verdure. All is still, A balmy night ! and though the... 
