 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 211by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred de Musset - 1895 - 328 pages
...34. 20. Tombez du ciel. Arrive unexpectedly. Page 99. 22. C'est le meilleur des maux. Cf. Rogers : There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay. And Victor Hugo, " La mélancolie, c'est le bonheur d'être triste." Les travailleurs de la mer. 23.... | |
 | Medicine - 1895 - 902 pages
...receive the least benefit remind one, when asked why they do not take treatment, of Rogers' lines : "Go ! you may call it madness, folly, You shall not chase my grief away ; There's such a joy in melancholy I would not, if I could, be gay." 552 Communications.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...roll ; The rising motion of an infant ray Shot glitnm'ring through the cloud, and promised day. PRIOR. Go — you may call it madness, folly, — You shall...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay ! ROGERS. Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Johnson. 1777. Moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness. «. MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 485. Go — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay ! /. SAM'L ROGERS— To . St. 1. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...never fail, Mall hind me to my native vale. MELANCHOLY. Go ! you may call it madness, folly — Yon shall not chase my gloom away ; There's such a charm in melancholy, 1 would not if I could be gay. Oh, if you knew the pensive pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1899 - 792 pages
...of course has a dramatic intention, and is therefore not open to the criticism provoked by Rogers' 'There's such a charm in melancholy I would not, if I could, be gay." 1 A passage in the Cook's speech (act ii. sc. a) is imitated, as Gifford pointed out, from Jonson's... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...source, — That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. On a Tear. 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. TO. _ . To vanish in the chinks... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1902 - 308 pages
...an imaginary — and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. — CARLYLE. 10. 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 ! — ROGERS. 11. I mean you... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - English language - 1902 - 306 pages
...CARLYLE. 10. 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 ! — ROGERS. 11. I mean you lie — under a mistake. — JONATHAN SWIFT. 12. In men this blunder still... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 930 pages
...conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease. The Lover's Melancholy, Act iii. Sc. 1. J. FORD. 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 ! To s. ROGERS. There is a mood... | |
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