 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
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pagina’s
...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 Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome folded... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pagina’s
...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 nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, I f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 342 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pagina’s
...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 - 524 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pagina’s
...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 - 544 pagina’s
...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 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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pagina’s
...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 Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pagina’s
...character as those with which Jonson's dramas abound. Of these we subjoin the following : — MELANCHOLY. 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 arms,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pagina’s
...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 nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Weleome folded arms,... | |
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