 | William Gardiner - 1849 - 546 ページ
...main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, AH 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. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 ページ
...Milton. Almost equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher : Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms,... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 342 ページ
...Milton. Almost equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fleteher : Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly l There's nought in this life sweete, If man were wise to see't • ' But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 ページ
...-Nice Valour.1] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc the nights Wherein you spend your folly t ace) From h $ I Welcome, folded arms, and filed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 ページ
...And point with taper spire to heaven. Where first our marriage-vows were given, MELANCHOLY. BEAUMONT. HENCE ! all you vain delights As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your follv: There's nought in this life sweet, Were raeii but wise to see't, But only melancholy ! 0, sweetest... | |
 | 1850 - 544 ページ
...remember the beautiful song in Fletcher's piny of The Nice Fa/our, act iii. scene 3., beginning — " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see "t, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy I" Milton wns indebted to it for the idea of his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 ページ
...the poetry of the ' Faithful Shepherdess :' some arc here subjoined : — [From • Nice Valour.'] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly 1 There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy 1 Welcome, folded... | |
 | 1850 - 524 ページ
...remember the beautiful song in Fletcher's plity of The Nice Valour, act iii. scene 3., beginning — " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly t There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 ページ
...character as those with which Jon.son's dramas abound. Of these we subjoin the following : — MELANCHOLY. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Weleome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 ページ
...addition of four more such stanzas, hut evidently written by a meaner p«n." IN PRAISE OF MELANCHOLY. HENCE all you vain delights As short as are the nights...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... | |
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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. 
