 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...your way, And thither will we go now, now, now, And thither will we go now. MELANCHOLY. BY BEADMONT. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your lolly ; There's naught in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy; O sweetest... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 872 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...subjoined : — [Jfelancholy.] [Prom * Nice Valour.'] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc X ! Welcome, folded anus, and fixed eyes, A eigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastcn'd to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...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...spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, I f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1849 - 546 pages
...main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, AH 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. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 236 pages
...Milton. Almost equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher : Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms,... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 332 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...-Nice Valour.1] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc the nights Wherein you spend your folly t ace) From h $ I Welcome, folded arms, and filed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...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...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see "t, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy I" Milton wns indebted to it for the idea of his... | |
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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. 
