 | 1963 - 448 pages
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 | Harry Redman - 1994 - 416 pages
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 | 1883 - 1002 pages
...understand, in the least, what those fine, crusty old Elizabethans meant when they wrole, 'There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy.' This noisy generation has losl Iheir secret As for me, I am conlenl wilh Ihe grays and drabs. I think... | |
 | Bryher - 2000 - 332 pages
...Sampson's eyes grew as weary as her voice. But Nancy was murmuring to herself joyously, triumphantly: Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...sweet. If man were wise to see't. But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy! Yes, pain was better than contentment if it meant poetry. (In her heart she... | |
 | Claude Gamblin - 2000 - 324 pages
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 | Arthur Symons - 2005 - 420 pages
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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. 
