 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 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...sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the... | |
 | 1842 - 414 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 - 232 páginas
...to give some idea of the lighter productions of the Muse in the period before us, in order to show that grace and elegance are not confined entirely...short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly Thwfe's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 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...spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy; O sweetest Melancholy! Welcome, folded arms and fix^d... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 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...spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, * But only Melancholy ; O sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 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 ; There's naught in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy ; 0 sweetest Melancholy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...the loathsome pottage of the praise and profligacy of the court of James I. MELANCHOLY. BY BEAUMONT. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's naught in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy; O sweetest Melancholy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 páginas
...the loathsome pottage of the praise and profligacy of the court of James I. MELANCHOLY. BY BEAUMONT. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's naught in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy; 0 sweetest Melancholy... | |
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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 ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy. 
