Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English Poetry and Language, with a Biography of Each Poet, &c, Volume 3H. Washbourne, 1845 |
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... of Melancholy . ” ] WHEN I go musing all alone , Thinking of divers things foreknown , When I build castles in the air , Void of sorrow , and void of fear , Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet , Methinks the time runs ROBERT BURTON . 5.
... of Melancholy . ” ] WHEN I go musing all alone , Thinking of divers things foreknown , When I build castles in the air , Void of sorrow , and void of fear , Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet , Methinks the time runs ROBERT BURTON . 5.
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... sweet , Methinks the time runs very fleet . All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . When I lie waking , all alone , Recounting what I have ill done , My thoughts on me then tyrannise , Fear and sorrow me surprise ...
... sweet , Methinks the time runs very fleet . All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . When I lie waking , all alone , Recounting what I have ill done , My thoughts on me then tyrannise , Fear and sorrow me surprise ...
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... sweet content ! In Paradise my time is spent ! Such thoughts may still my fancy move , So may I ever be in love ! All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . When I recount love's many frights , My sighs and ROBERT ...
... sweet content ! In Paradise my time is spent ! Such thoughts may still my fancy move , So may I ever be in love ! All my joys to this are folly , Nought so sweet as melancholy . When I recount love's many frights , My sighs and ROBERT ...
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... sweet as melancholy . ' Tis my sole plague to be alone ; I am a beast , a monster grown ; I will no light nor company , I find it now my misery . The scene is turn'd , my joys are gone , Fear , discontent , and sorrows come . All my ...
... sweet as melancholy . ' Tis my sole plague to be alone ; I am a beast , a monster grown ; I will no light nor company , I find it now my misery . The scene is turn'd , my joys are gone , Fear , discontent , and sorrows come . All my ...
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... sweet content I feel and see . All my joys to this are folly , None so divine as melancholy . I'll change my state with any wretch Thou canst from jail or dunghill fetch . My pain past cure ; another hell ; I may not in this torment ...
... sweet content I feel and see . All my joys to this are folly , None so divine as melancholy . I'll change my state with any wretch Thou canst from jail or dunghill fetch . My pain past cure ; another hell ; I may not in this torment ...
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