 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, O sweetest Melancholy...  Lives of the novelists - Pagina 266door sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | English poets - 1801 - 454 pagina’s
...fade ; Yet never will I men persuade To leave affections, where may shine 80 NO. [In the Nice Valour.] HENCE all you 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't, But only melancholy, O sweetest melancholy... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pagina’s
...Passionate Man." The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth transcribing : — " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein yoti spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 pagina’s
...stone : But contented lives for aye : The more he laughs the more he may. SONG. [In "The Nice Valour."] HENCE all you 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't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pagina’s
...she, or none, Tlwt I love, and love alone. BE A UMONT and FLETCHER. SONG In the Nice Valour. JJENCE all you 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't, But only melancholy, 0 sweetest melancholy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pagina’s
...Make not so fair to cause our moan, Or make a heart that's like our own. VIII. MELANCHOLY. FLETCHER . 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 ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 pagina’s
...And till there be more truth in meu, Never shoot at maids agen. THE THUD SONS. Mixed, all you vaine delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to scc't, . Bat oaly melancholly, 0 sweetest melancholly.... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 630 pagina’s
...powerful charm, Shall banish thee for ever. Cupid. Never, never ! I am too sure thine own. [Exit. Pta. [sings.] 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... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 348 pagina’s
...Prynne wrote, I shall give one from the Passionate Madman from the Muses of Beaumont and Fletcher : " Hence all you 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't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 pagina’s
...even to modern ears, though accustomed to the studied correctness of these latter days : 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't, But only melancholy ; O sweetest melancholy... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 500 pagina’s
...song, to which it is evident Milton had a view when he composed his // Penseroso : " 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 't, «' But only melancholy; " Oh,... | |
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