 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 ページ
...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...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 and fixed... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 ページ
...impression by which we are immediately influenced. Hence in a state of MF.LANCHOLV most welcome are, Folded arms, and fixed eyes ; A sigh, that piercing mortifies ; A look that's fasten' d to the ground ; A tongue chaiu'd up without a tound; Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 492 ページ
...men were wise to sec 't, • " But only melancholy ; '* Oh, sweetest melancholy ! " Welcome, foiled arms, and fixed eyes, " A sigh that piercing mortifies, " A look that's fasten'd to the ground, " Л tongue chain'd up, without a sound ! " Fountain heads, and pathless groves, " Places which pale... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 500 ページ
...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,... | |
 | 1813 - 716 ページ
...larger dimensions," they have a merit beyond their own in the opinion of every lover of English poetry. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Oh! sweetest melancholv! Welcome folded arras and 6xed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies; A look... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 ページ
...we have just taken from Steele, I cannot withhold the gratification of presenting it lo my readers : 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, O sweetest melancholy! Welcome folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 ページ
...of Christ Church. GLEE for Six Voices* S. HENCE all ye vain delights ! As short as are .the-nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing, mortifies ; A... | |
 | 1839 - 894 ページ
...the liquid numbers^ender 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... | |
 | 664 ページ
...insertion will confer a favour on year's respectfully, IOTA. Liverpool, May 29, 1821. HENCE, all yon vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, [f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ' sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and... | |
 | 1821 - 702 ページ
...entertaining work, their insertion will confer a favour on your's respectfully, IOTA. Liverpool, May 29, 1821. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein yon spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only 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. 
