| Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 ページ
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 ページ
...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 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,... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 724 ページ
...it is supposed, of Milton's " 11 Репseroso," and one of the finest proofs of Fletcher's genius : Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...There's nought in this life sweet> If man were wise to aee't, But only melancholy ; ' Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 402 ページ
...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 nought iu this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy ; O sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome,... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1846 - 694 ページ
...original, it is supposed, of Milton's " II Penseroso," and one of the finest proofs of Fletcher's genius : Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 ページ
...your way, And thither will we go now, now, now, And thither will we go now. MELANCHOLY. BY BEADMONT. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your lolly ; There's naught in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy; O sweetest... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 ページ
...of pomp and state Buried in dust, once dead by fate. -FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1535 — 1616). MELANCHOLY. HENCE all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...subjoined : — [Jfelancholy.] [Prom * Nice Valour.'] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc 2 Ѳ `b : b l >1 j _ g#w 0 E@n @X9b M : l 0 i2...S7 ^ !D(;Ml Q & hK +$ m ;R 2 x Z "$ $ Cy 3 4 anus, and fixed eyes, A eigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastcn'd to the ground, A tongue... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...Nice Valour.'] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc the nights Wherein you spend your folly 1 There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise...only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyee, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 ページ
...the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. J'AS. (Siai/s.) " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, I f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
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