If I trifle, and merely trifle, it is because I am reduced to it by necessity - a melancholy, that nothing else so effectually disperses, engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous... The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 2421804Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1806 - 462 pages
...else so effectually disperses, engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I...been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persons... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 pages
...else so effectually disperses, engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And strange as it may seem the most ludicrous lines I...been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great perr... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...in the arduous task of being merry by force. And strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines [ ever wrote, have been written in the saddest mood, and, but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persons... | |
| William Cowper - Poets, English - 1817 - 324 pages
...else so effectually disperses, engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I...been written in the saddest mood, and, but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persona... | |
| 1830 - 480 pages
...master-piece of humour, " John Gilpin," during one of his tits of morbid dejection, and he himself says " Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I...been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written at all. ***** I have never heard any one who fulfilled... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poets, English - 1830 - 482 pages
...masterpiece of humour, John Gilpin, during one of bis fits of morbid dejection, and he himself eiys, " Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I...been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written at all." t The reconciliation which took place between... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...of humour, Jnhn Gilpin, during one of hie fits of morbid dejection, end he himself lays. "Strange at { 1 _ R A oܡD4 )̋ . Te 4_i : (57:ƴ$ @v i 1 F (= n ra > (d bnt for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written at nil." f The reconciliation which look... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1830 - 488 pages
...masterpiece of humour, John Gilpin, during one of hi« fits of morbid dejection, and he himself says, " Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote havo been written in the eaddent mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous Unes Y4P Y4 8 Y4 saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persons... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 576 pages
...fits of morbid dejection, and he himself says, " Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines 1 ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written at all." t The reconciliation which took place between... | |
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