| John Genest - 1832 - 624 ページ
...the 3d act, from which Seward says, Milton certainly took many of the sentiments in his H Pensoroso. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly I There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Ob, sweetest melancholy!... | |
| 1832 - 652 ページ
...rules the main." ' The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Johnson : — ' " Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ; There's naught in this life so sweet, If man were wise to seet't, But only melancholy. Oh ! sweet melancholy,... | |
| 1834 - 358 ページ
...cannot resist tlie wish to insert them. They are from Fletcher's Nice Valour, or the Passionate Madman. 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 ;— Oh, sweetest... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 ページ
...the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. J?JLS, (Sings.) " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly I There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1835 - 410 ページ
...that " all is vanity and vexation of spirit : " — he was quite in a mood to say, — " 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 it, But only melancholy ! Nothing so... | |
| 1839 - 876 ページ
...liquid numbers, tender 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... | |
| 1839 - 894 ページ
...liquid numbers, tender images, and apt expressions of this little composition plead our apology. " Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly j There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy.... | |
| Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 ページ
...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 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,... | |
| 1840 - 372 ページ
...rain. Into this prince gently, oh, gently slide, And kiss himinto slumbers like a bride ! MELANCHOLY. 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... | |
| william gardiner - 1841 - 500 ページ
...unbounded rules the main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...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... | |
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