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 Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 páginas
...THE PASSIONATE MADMAN." Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you speed your folly ! 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 that... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 páginas
...following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher. Hence, all you vain delights, As short aa are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life's sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy 1 Welcome folded... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 786 páginas
...Milton ; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.1 ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY. Hence, all yon vain delights ; As short as are the nights Wherein...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, 1 Sober, grave. 2 Execuuonen. I lad— Hulltt'i " A|e of Elizabeth," «"J Lamb1! " (pcclmciu... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...such a descent from their height, while listening to their diviner moods. MELANCHOLY. BY BEAUMONT. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ; Thare's naught in this life aweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy ; 0 sweetest... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 páginas
...Shakapeure or Milton ; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.* ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY. Hence, all you vain delights; As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, I Sober, gray*. I Executioner!. I Bead— Hulltt'i " Aft or Elizabeth," and LnmVi " Specimens... | |
 | 1876 - 844 páginas
...in the last years of Fletcher's life. fThe resemblance will be evident on a perusal of the lines : " 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... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1861 - 280 páginas
...And 'till there be more truth in men, Never shoot at maid again ! * Ascribed to Fletcher. MELANCHOLY. 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 páginas
...scorn and let her go ; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be ? G. Wither CIV MELANCHOLY Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly: If man were wise to see't, There's nought in this life sweet But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy!... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 740 páginas
...sure thine own. [ Exil. Pas. \_Singg.'] Попсс, all you vain delights, As short as are the nighte Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man wore wise to sco't, liut only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...did dry up. Maaingcr. MELANCHOLY— Sweetness of. Hence all you vain delights, As short as are tho nights, Wherein you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet^ I, roan, were wise to see it, But only melancholy ! 0, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome with folded arms... | |
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