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
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1835 - 410 páginas
...that " all is vanity and vexation of spirit : " — he was quite in a mood to say, — " Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ; There 's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see it, But only melancholy ! Nothing so... | |
 | 1839 - 874 páginas
...liquid numbers, tender images, and apt expressions of this little composition plead our apology. " Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy. " Welcome, folded arms and fixed... | |
 | 1839 - 898 páginas
...liquid numbers, tender images, and apt expressions of this little composition plead our apology. " Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly j There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy.... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...rain. Into this prince gently, oh, gently slide, And kiss himinto slumbers like a bride ! MELANCHOLY. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy... | |
 | william gardiner - 1841 - 500 páginas
...unbounded rules the main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...'t, But only melancholy. Oh! sweetest Melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies; A look that's fasten'd to the ground,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 páginas
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Singi.) 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, A... | |
 | 1842 - 416 páginas
...equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher. Hence, all yon vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this hie sweete, If man were wise to see'l, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy! Welcome folded... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...of the ' Faithful Shepherdess :' some are here subjoined : — \_Mdanclwbi."] I Khun' Nice Valour.') ddrai to the Sun.'] [From ' Fnradiw Lost.'] 0 thou, that, with surpassing glory crown 1 There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | 1862 - 670 páginas
...gathering all the fruits of peace anil crowned with all her fiowen. ODE TO MELANCHOLY. HENCE all yon vain delights ; As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly : There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy. Oh, sweetest melancholy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 páginas
...Passionate Madman,' an " Address to Melancholy," which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " 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 sight that... | |
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