 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...poets ; but they wear their bays with a difference. FROM THE "NICE VALOUB, OB THE PASSIONATE MADMAN." Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you speed your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...bird; — Beauty through my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 774 pages
...seem'd effac'd, The warmth of a meeting like this brings to light. Moore. MELANCHOLY. HENCE all your 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. Beaumont. Melancholy... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 pages
...there be more truth in men, Never shoot at maid again ! * Ascribed to Fletcher. MELANCHOLY. TTENCE, all you vain delights, -*-*- As short as are the nights...eyes, A. sight that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1224 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...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to sce't, But only melancholy, Oil, sweetest melancholy, Welcome folded arms nml fixed eyi-s, A sight... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 290 pages
...MELANCHOLY. TTENCE, all you vain delights, -U- As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly J There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise...Oh, sweetest melancholy! Welcome, folded arms, and fixdd eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 444 pages
...would I adore, And 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...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... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 412 pages
...would I adore, And call upon thee to shoot mor^, Shoot more, shoot more ! SONG IN PBAISE OF MELANCHOLY. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyea, A sigh, that piercing, mortifies, A look. that's fasten' d to the ground, A tongue chain' d up,... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1855 - 284 pages
...sorrows; And 'till there be more truth in men, Never shoot at maid again ! * Ascribed to Fletcher. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly I There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see,'t, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...melancholy ? Are 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...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... | |
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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. 
