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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. "
Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth - Page 222
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 218 pages
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Notes and Queries, Volume 1

1850 - 524 pages
...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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...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 fasten'd to the...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Weleome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the...
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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...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...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...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...poets ; but they wear their bays with a difference. FROM THE "NICE VALOB, OR THE PASSIONATE MADMAN" Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you speed your folly! There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy....
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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Charles Mackay - 1851 - 348 pages
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 pages
...respect and regard, ,Dear sir, . Your most obd't hum. serv't, CLEMENT READ. MELANCHOLY. BY FLETCHER. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

1852 - 508 pages
...with respect and regard, Dear sir, Your most obd't hum. aerv't, CLEMENT READ. MELANCHOLY. BY FLETCHER. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wiae to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, aud fixed...
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The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Companion, Volumes 5-6

1852 - 508 pages
...with respect and regard, Dear sir, Your most obd't hum. serv't, CLEMENT READ. MELANCHOLY. BY FLETCHER. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed...
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