 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...  Essays Upon Authors and Books - Página 96por William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 236 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 páginas
...fade ; Yet never will I men persuade To leave affections, where may shine 80 NO. [In the Nice Valour.] HENCE all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 páginas
...Passionate Man." The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth transcribing : — " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein yoti spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 páginas
...stone : But contented lives for aye : The more he laughs the more he may. SONG. [In "The Nice Valour."] HENCE all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...you spend 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,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...she, or none, Tlwt I love, and love alone. BE A UMONT and FLETCHER. SONG In the Nice Valour. JJENCE all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, 0 sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 páginas
...again ; Make not so fair to cause our moan, Or make a heart that's like our own. VIII. MELANCHOLY. FLETCHER . HENCE, all you vain delights, As short...you spend your folly ! 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 páginas
...And till there be more truth in meu, Never shoot at maids agen. THE THUD SONS. Mixed, all you vaine delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to scc't, . Bat oaly melancholly, 0 sweetest melancholly. Welcome folded armes... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 348 páginas
...the stage were impure when Prynne wrote, I shall give one from the Passionate Madman from the Muses of Beaumont and Fletcher : " Hence all you vain delights,...you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy ! Welcome Welcome fold'd... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 630 páginas
...charm, Shall banish thee for ever. Cupid. Never, never ! I am too sure thine own. [Exit. Pta. [sings.] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...you spend 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,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 páginas
...even to modern ears, though accustomed to the studied correctness of these latter days : 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't, But only melancholy ; O sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 500 páginas
...song, to which it is evident Milton had a view when he composed his // Penseroso : " 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 't, «' But only melancholy; " Oh,... | |
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