 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...Madman,' an » Address to Melancholy " which is llic perfection of this kind of writing. 11 Hence, nil 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 sce't, But only melancholy, Oil, sweetest melancholy,... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 pages
...more truth in men, Never shoot at maid again ! * Ascribed to Fletcher. MELANCHOLY. TTENCE, 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... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 444 pages
...call upon thee to shoot more, Shoot more, shoot more ! SONG IN PEAISE 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... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...heav'n — The fellowship of all good souls be with thee ! Melancholy. By Beaumont. Hence , all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see't, But only Melancholy ; O sweetest Melancholy... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...Milton; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.* ADDRESS TO 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, I Sober, gran. I Executioner!. But only... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...we to hear nothing but such strains as — * Pro Mar. t Les Conseils de la Sagesse. " 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 - 1857 - 334 pages
...four more such stanzas, but evidently written by a meaner pen. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...Milton ; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.1 ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY. Hence, all yon 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, 1 Sober, grave. 2 Execuuonen. I lad—... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...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 ; Thare's naught in this life aweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy ; 0 sweetest... | |
 | 1876 - 846 pages
...years of Fletcher's life. fThe resemblance will be evident on a perusal of the lines : " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy. Oh, sweetest... | |
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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, O sweetest Melancholy... 
