 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
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Johnson. (1777) 22 Moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 485. 23 RICHTER — Titan. Zykel 140. 2 Freiheit ist nur in dem Reich der sucli a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay! SAMUEL ROGERS — To . St. 1. 24 I can... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - 1922 - 358 pages
...wantonness, and of singers who mope so picturesquely and who say, like the youthful Samuel Rogers, "There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay." This is partly due to our poet's longevity. He sang to men out of six decades. He is not one of those... | |
 | Joseph Bucklin Bishop - United States - 1925 - 260 pages
...Not only did melancholy become a habit, but one could fancy him saying at times with Samuel Rogers: "There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." On one occasion, when he was especially deep in gloom, Bromley remarked to me as he left us: "Billy... | |
 | Benjamin Christopher Leeming - Behaviorism (Psychology) - 1926 - 312 pages
...enjoy the sad, the melancholic and the morbid? There are those who are ever ready to cry with Rogers: "Go — you may call it madness, folly; You shall...charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay." So it must not be taken for granted that the affinities sought, though always desirable, are always... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...A man who attempts to read all the new productlons must do as the fleas do - skip. 9547 To -. 1814' ͚ tlX :Ii )设 N K7 c Enc >| ! FpA +Z Zq/ @ (4 9548 'Human Life' Think nothing done while aught remains to do. 9549 'Human Life' Then, never less... | |
 | Paul K. Saint-Amour - Law - 2003 - 306 pages
...these lines before? 3 [UNTTTLED] When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay. 4 [UNTITLED] There's a beauty for ever unchangingly bright For coming events cast their shadows before;... | |
 | Linda Ostrander - 2006 - 291 pages
..." THOMAS HARDY 'But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy. " JOHN MILTON Day: "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. " SAMUEL ROGERS Day: "Hence,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 636 pages
...Morality. [Sept. 1, From which there Lino doubt but Rogers borrowed the following well-known tines: — Go, you may call it madness — folly, You shall not...be gay ! Oh if you knew the pensive pleasure That filia my bosom when I sich, You would not rob me of a treasure, Monarchs are too poor to buy. The following... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1847 - 568 pages
...stray articles were sometimes furnished by men of rank and likelihood. The well-known lines of Rogers, Go — you may call it madness, folly, You shall not...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could be gay, &c. appeared originally in the Cabinet. Sir Thomas Lawrence, whose dalliance with the Muse, was then... | |
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...poet — who seems to be fond of a slight touch of the affection I am treating of — says — " O you may call it madness — folly — You shall not...charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." " Now this may be all very well to point a verse ; but let me be gay, and Rogers may have the blues,... | |
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