 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 páginas
...of the Iturninir Pestle, old Merry-Thought eu'ers repoating the following verses : When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep, In came...Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. This was probably the beginning of some ballad, commonly known, at the time when that author wrote;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...old Merry-Thought CU'I.TS repeating the following verses: When it was grown to dark midnight, And ul) were fast asleep. In came Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. This was probably the beginning of some ballad. cmnnumly known, at the time when that author wrote;... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 640 páginas
...George ; peace! here comtstne merry ulil gentleman again. Enter Old Merrythought. Mer. When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep, In came...beforehand, till tomorrow at noon ; why should I be sad? Methiuks I have half-a-dozen jovial spirits within me ; ' I am three merry men 3°, and three merry... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 páginas
...SCENE V. An Apartment in Merrythought's House. Enter Old MERRYTHOUGHT. Men [Sings.] When it was grown to dark midnight And all were fast asleep, In came...to-morrow at noon; why should I be sad ? Methinks I have half-a-dozen jovial spirits within me; [Sings."] ' I am three merry men,' and three * When it teas... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...of the Burning Pestle,' old Merrythought enters, repeating the following verses: When it was grown to dark midnight. And all were fast asleep, In came...Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. This was, probably, the beginning of some ballad commonly known at the time when that author wrote... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1825 - 756 páginas
...Knight of the Burning Pestle: You are no love for me, Margaret, I am no love for you. When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep, In came...Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. " These lines," says Mallet, " naked of ornament and simple as they are, struck my fancy; and bringing... | |
 | 1829 - 432 páginas
...You are no love for me, Margaret, I am no love for you. And the following stanza: When it was grown to dark midnight. And all were fast asleep, In came...Margaret's grimly ghost. And stood at William's feet. In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. Her face was like an April morn, Clad... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1840 - 746 páginas
...— AnAparlment in MERRYTHOUGHT'S House. ElltCI- Dili MERIlYTHOfOHT. Mer. [Sings.] When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep. In came...William's feet. I have money, and meat, and drink, before. hand, till to-morrow at noon ; why should I be sad ? Methinks I have half-a-dozen jovial spirits... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 páginas
...suggested to him by a fragment quoted in one of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays : — " When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep, In came...Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet."" " These lines," he says, " naked of ornament and simple as they are, struck my fancy, and, bringing... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 páginas
...suggested to him by a fragment quoted in one of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays:— " When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep, In came...Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet." 2 " These lines," he says, " naked of ornament and simple as they are, struck my fancy, and, bringing... | |
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When it was grown to dark midnight, And all were fast asleep, In came Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. 
