 | English poetry - 1806 - 540 pages
...impending storm ! One dreadful phalanx, Britons, form : Friends to your King, your Country, and your God ! Go — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh ! if you knew the pensive pleasure, " That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 560 pages
...Country, and your God I There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Go—you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my gloom away, Oh ! if you knew the pensive pleasure, That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure,... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 688 pages
...Nor pollute this fair temple, Felicity's shrine. Graflon-itrtrt, JG Id May, 1808. - / . MELANCHOLY. Go— you may call it madness, folly, You shall not...my gloom away, There's such a charm in melancholy, 1 would not, if, I could, be gay. Ph ! if you knew the pensive pleasure, That fills my bosom when I... | |
 | Panorama - Epigrams, English - 1809 - 368 pages
...hence the paradox of Fortune's reign, The fixt are gone; the uusteady still remain. CHERISHED LOVE, GO — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my gloom away, There's snch a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh ! if you knew the peusive pleasure,... | |
 | 1809 - 672 pages
...pollute this fair temple, Felicity's shrine. Graflon-ttreH, ¡. G. id May, 1808. MELA4CHOLY. Go— yotr may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my gloom away, There's sucn a chirm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Ob ! if you knew the pensive pleasure,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...story related of Henry the Fourth of France; similar to ours of " The King and Miller of Mansfield." To Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...story related of Henry the Fourth of France; similar to ours of " The King and Miller of Mansfield." To Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pages
...Sir/. Moore. From which there is no doubt bar Rogers borrowed the folio wing well-knout lines : — Go, you may call it madness— folly. You shall not chase my gloom awav» There's such a charm in ffelancft»ly I would not, if 1 could, be gay ! Oh if you knew the pensive... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1820 - 636 pages
...constituted, the most ordinary incidents become provocations of derangement. Some minds are so framed as ' to view all the blessings of this, or a future life,...charm in melancholy— I would not if I could, be gay 1' We must here terminate our account of this very interesting performance. The medical reader will... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1820 - 272 pages
...of Henry the Fourth of France; similar to ours of " The King and Miller of Mansfield." To Go—you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay.. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
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Go — you may call it madness, folly ; You shall not chase my gloom away. There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. 
