...bono, even of life itself, but much of this mood was of the quality of which another poet once said : "Go, you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away; There's such a charm to melancholy; I would not, if I could, be gay." The following is an expression of this: TEDIUM VYTJE...

...Their greatest gratification is persistive despondency. Deaf to precept or example, they retort : — " Go — you may call it madness — folly — You shall not chase my gloom away ; There's such a churra in melancholy — I would not, if I could, be gay!" " Were I to allege one cause which I thought...

...I felt, in the (all force of the words of the poet, that this was an hour in my existence when — There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay. The novel scene also wore n much more attractive aspect from my fortunately not suffering any unplensant...

...CLAIM I LAY. The idea expressed in the second stanza of Campbell's lines to "Melancholy," There *s such a charm in melancholy, I would not if I could be gay, is from the same writer, in a poem also addressed to " Melancholy;" Mysterious passion, dearest pain,...

...receive the least benefit remind one, when asked why they do not take treatment, of Rogers's 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." The report of two prominent...

...high connexions ! AAC SOME ACCOUNT OF THE INCONSOLABLE SOCIETY. BY LAMAN BLANCHARD. " There's snch a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay."— ROGERS. SOCIETIES arc commonly established either for political, scientific, or social purposes. The...