 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 ページ
...or Passionate Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all you vain delights; As short as are the...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies ; A look... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 ページ
...Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all yon vain delights; As short as are the nights Wherein...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies ; A look... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 ページ
...or Passionate Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all you vain delights; As short as are the...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If mau were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 ページ
...the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. I'.\ ». ( \(>/,v.) Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads,' and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 ページ
...Passionate Madman. The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth tianscribing. Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy, Oh sweetest Melancholy. Welcome folded arms, and fix'd eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 ページ
...As short as are the nights Whrrein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If rhan were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Welcome,...fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look (hat's fastended to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 ページ
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Sings). Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly f There 's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 268 ページ
...alone, and plunging into a recess near the castle, called the wilderness. " I would much rather— • Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that, piercing, mortifies, A look chat's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound.' " But here he was disappointed... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 582 ページ
...; 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 eyes, A sigh that piercing, mortifies ; A look that fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ; Fountain-heads, and pathless groves,... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 626 ページ
...the 3d act, from which Seward says, Milton certainly took many of the sentiments in his II Pensoroso, Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...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... | |
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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. 
