 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...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; 0 sweetest Melancholy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...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 - English drama - 1845 - 232 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 1846 - 724 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1846 - 402 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 1846 - 694 pages
...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 - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...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 - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...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 pages
...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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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... 
