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
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 páginas
...your way, And thither will we go now, now, now, And thither will we go now. MELANCHOLY. BY BEADMONT. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your lolly ; There's naught in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy; O sweetest... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 páginas
...of pomp and state Buried in dust, once dead by fate. -FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1535 — 1616). MELANCHOLY. 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 ! Welcome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...subjoined : — [Jfelancholy.] [Prom * Nice Valour.'] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc X see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded anus, and fixed eyes, A eigh that piercing mortifies,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 páginas
...the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. J'AS. (Siai/s.) " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, I f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1849 - 546 páginas
...main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, AH short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly;...'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,... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 páginas
...Milton. Almost equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher : Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms,... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 342 páginas
...Milton. Almost equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fleteher : Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly l There's nought in this life sweete, If man were wise to see't • ' But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 páginas
...And point with taper spire to heaven. Where first our marriage-vows were given, MELANCHOLY. BEAUMONT. HENCE ! all you vain delights As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your follv: There's nought in this life sweet, Were raeii but wise to see't, But only melancholy ! 0, sweetest... | |
 | 1850 - 528 páginas
...BEAUMONT. Many of your readers will remember the beautiful song in Fletcher's plity of The Nice Valour, act iii. scene 3., beginning — " Hence, all you...short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly t There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...the poetry of the ' Faithful Shepherdess :' some arc here subjoined : — [From • Nice Valour.'] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly 1 There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy 1 Welcome, folded... | |
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