Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy... Notes and Queries - Página 1341850Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 páginas
...the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. I'.\ ». ( \(>/,v.) Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 páginas
...Passionate Madman. The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth tianscribing. Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy, Oh sweetest Melancholy. Welcome folded arms, and fix'd eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 páginas
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Sings). Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly f There 's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 626 páginas
...the 3d act, from which Seward says, Milton certainly took many of the sentiments in his II Pensoroso, Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 624 páginas
...the 3d act, from which Seward says, Milton certainly took many of the sentiments in his H Pensoroso. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly I There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Ob, sweetest melancholy!... | |
 | 1832 - 652 páginas
...rules the main." ' The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Johnson : — ' " Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ; There's naught in this life so sweet, If man were wise to seet't, But only melancholy. Oh ! sweet melancholy,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 510 páginas
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Sings.) " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 490 páginas
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. Pis. (Singa.) " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 páginas
...the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. J?JLS, (Sings.) " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly I There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | 1834 - 354 páginas
...cannot resist tlie wish to insert them. They are from Fletcher's Nice Valour, or the Passionate Madman. Hence ! all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly f There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ;— Oh, sweetest... | |
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