 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...melancholy hird ? O idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. • — But some night-wand'ring man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance...distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrows)... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 688 pàgines
...of the stars. And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy " bird !* A melancholy bird ! Oh ! idle thought! - In nature...melancholy. But some night-wandering man whose heart was l^O cloud, no relique of the sunken day pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper,... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pàgines
...THoMSoN. Coleridge, however, does not admit that the character of the song is melancholy. He says : A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought — In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night- wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of some grievous wrong, Or slow... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 414 pàgines
...dimness of the stars. And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy" bird!* A melancholy bird ! Oh ! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. [pierced But some night-wandering man whose heart was With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 344 pàgines
...recollections. As an example of the latter judgment, Coleridge may be quoted:— " A melancholy bird ! 0 idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy...poor wretch ! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow,) he, and such as he, First named these... | |
 | 1907 - 708 pàgines
...characteristically advancing in the following passage a general truth and a specific criticism : — A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In Nature...distemper, or neglected love (And so, poor wretch, fill d all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow), he,... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pàgines
...dimness of the stars. And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy" Bird ! A melancholy Bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature...nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man , whose henrt was pie. ced With the resemblance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love,... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pàgines
...dimness of the stars. And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musicnl, most melancholy" Bird ! A melancholy Bird ' Oh ! idle thought ! In nature...melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pie. led With the resemblance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, 'And so, poor... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pàgines
...the nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy''^ bird ! A melancholy bird .' 0 ! idle thought.' In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart waj pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so,... | |
 | 1851 - 554 pàgines
...The Nightingale. A conversation poem : "The nightingale — 1 Most musical, most melancholy ' bird ! A melancholy bird ! Oh ! idle thought ! In nature...pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain." Plato Phœdo, § 77. (p. 85., Steph.)... | |
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And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous... 
