 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.  Poems - Page 115by Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 374 pages
...language of Rogers — " Go, you may call it madness, folly, You shall not steal away my rest ; There 's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be blest. Oh if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of... | |
 | Michael Kelly - 1826 - 394 pages
...without thinking of poor Pergolesi's untimely death. " Go, you may call it madness, folly, You cannot chase my gloom away, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. " Ah ! did you know what pensive pleasure Kends my bosom wheu I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | Michael Kelly, Theodore Edward Hook - London (England) - 1826 - 386 pages
...untimely death. " Go, you may call it madness, folly, You cannot chase my gloom away, There's snch a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. " Ah! did yon know what pensive pleasure Rends.my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob me of a treasure... | |
 | Medicine - 1829 - 636 pages
...Their greatest gratification is persistive despondency. Deaf to precept or example, they retort :— " Go — you may call it madness — folly — You shall...gloom away ; — There's such a charm in melancholy — 1 would not, if I could, be gay .'" " Were I (o allege one cause which I (bought was operating... | |
 | George Man Burrows - Diseases - 1828 - 716 pages
...Their greatest gratification is persistive despondency. Deaf to precept or example, they retort : — Go — you may call it madness — folly — You shall...in melancholy — I would not, if I could, be gay ! We cannot be surprised if the aberrations of such minds are associated with false notions respecting... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...Thy thoughts belong to Heaven and thee ! And may the secret of thy soul Remain within its sanctuary.1 TO Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away. There'« such a charm in melancholy, 1 would not, if I could, be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure... | |
 | 1832 - 446 pages
...Then, mother ! when my heart's above, Kind mother, let me die ! MELANCHOLY. By Samuel Rogers, Esq. Go! you may call it madness, folly, You shall not...There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if 1 could be gay. If you knew the pensive pleasure Which 6lls my bosom when I sigh, You would not rob... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...novel-reading. *** POVERTY — " Hence, loathed melancholy," exclaims one poet, while another sings — •' There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay.'* But no bard has sung the praises of poverty ; both poets and philosophers have voted it a curse. It... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Authors - 1833 - 216 pages
...He will tell you perhaps, in the language of Rodgers. " You may call it madness, folly ; You cannot chase my gloom away ; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." Of all writers, old Burton has given the most graphic description of this " amabilis insania," as he... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 310 pages
...He will tell you perhaps, in the language of Rogers, " You may call it madness, folly ; You cannot chase my gloom away ; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." Of all writers, old Burton has given the most graphic description of this " amabilis insania," as he... | |
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