 When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly, None so sweet...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 771827Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 488 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act, and smile, With pleasing thoughts...beguile ; By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought-for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 476 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act, and smile, With pleasing thoughts...beguile, By a brook-side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought-for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. . All... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood se green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...go, Methinks the time moves very slow. All my griefes to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...go, Methinks the time mores very slow. All iny griefs to this are jolly, Nought so sad as melancholy. When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a. brook side, or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen ; A thousand pleasures do me bless,... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 426 pages
...Methinks the time runs very slew.; ' All my griefe to this are jolly* Nxmght so sad as melancholy. ..... When to myself I act and smile, . . . *'. . "With pleasing thoughts the time beguHe, . : . < > 1 <gy a, brook'sidt, or wood so greeti, - ; : '. .IJnheard, unsought for, and unseen,... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 524 pages
...time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. i When to my self I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me blesse, And... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pages
...time moves very slow. All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as melancholy. When to my self I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me blesse, And... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1819 - 426 pages
...time moves very slow : All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so sad as Melancholy. When to my selfe I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures doe me bless, And... | |
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