 | Henry Neele - 1839 - 264 pages
...short as are the nights, In which you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't But only Melancholy. Oh ! sweetest...Melancholy ! Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing, mortifies ; A look that fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...liquid numbers, tender images, and apt expressions of this little composition plead our apology. " Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly j There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy.... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1840 - 746 pages
...you vain delights, As short as ore the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in thin life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy...melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...rain. Into this prince gently, oh, gently slide, And kiss himinto slumbers like a bride ! MELANCHOLY. 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 melancholy... | |
 | william gardiner - 1841 - 500 pages
...unbounded rules the main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy. Oh! sweetest Melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 pages
...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. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies; A look that's fasten'd to the ground, ^ A tongue chain'd up without a... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Singi.) Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the... | |
 | 1842 - 414 pages
...equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher. Hence, all yon vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this hie sweete, If man were wise to see'l, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy! Welcome folded... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...of the ' Faithful Shepherdess :' some are here subjoined : — \_Mdanclwbi."] I Khun' Nice Valour.') ddrai to the Sun.'] [From ' Fnradiw Lost.'] 0 thou, that, with surpassing glory crown 1 There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | 1862 - 670 pages
...gathering all the fruits of peace anil crowned with all her fiowen. ODE TO MELANCHOLY. HENCE all yon 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 melancholy... | |
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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. 
