 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, and unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown .my soul with happiness. All my joys beside are folly, None so sweet as melancholy, &c.* The first four chapters of Tristram... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...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, None so sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh,... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pages
...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, None so sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 474 pages
...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 iny joys besides are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...pleasing thoughts the time beguile; By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, and unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 pages
...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, None so sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh,... | |
 | 1821 - 448 pages
...For myself, I can only say, that when seated at home in my library, and in a contemplative bumour, it is in such speculations that I most delight. it is then ** A thousand pleasnres do me bless. And crown my soul with happiness." To fly hack to that period when, uncramped... | |
 | 1822 - 962 pages
...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, None so sweet as melancholy — Methinks I hear, methinks I see, Sweet... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1823 - 266 pages
...volume is frequently enhanced from the soft and infused light of other days. For myself, I can only say, that when seated at home in my library, and in a contemplative...delight, — it is then A thousand pleasures do me bless, Anil crown my soul with happiness, as I fly back to that period when, uncramped by the restraint of... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 pages
...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, None so .sweet as melancholy. When I lie, sit, or walk alone, I sigh,... | |
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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. 
