 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...Sbaktpeare or Milton; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.* ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY. Hence, all you vain delights; As short as are the...nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, I Sober, gran. I Executioner!. But only melancholy; Oh, sweetest melancholy, Welcome folded arms and... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...! The peace of heav'n — The fellowship of all good souls be with thee ! Melancholy. By Beaumont. Hence , all you vain delights, As short as are the...spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see't, But only Melancholy ; O sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome , folded arms and... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...addition of four more such stanzas, but evidently written by a meaner pen. IN PRAISE OF MELANCHOLY. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the...melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! "Welcome, folded arras and fixed eyes, A sigh that, piercing, modifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 pages
...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...melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...i'bakspeare or Milton ; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.3 ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY. But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy, Welcome...look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd np without a sound ; Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves: Moonlight... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 280 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..."Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life's sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy; Oh, sweetest melancholy! Welcome folded... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fletcher. Hence, all you vain delights, As short aa are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life's sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy 1 Welcome folded... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...Milton ; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.1 ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY. Hence, all yon vain delights ; As short as are the nights Wherein...nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, 1 Sober, grave. 2 Execuuonen. I lad— Hulltt'i " A|e of Elizabeth," «"J Lamb1! " (pcclmciu of DrinviUc... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...such a descent from their height, while listening to their diviner moods. MELANCHOLY. BY BEAUMONT. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ; Thare's naught in this life aweet, Were men but wise to see 't, But only Melancholy ; 0 sweetest... | |
 | Johannes Carl Andersen - 1928 - 246 pages
...third lines are doubled. The second line of the above may be doubled in the same way as is the fourth: Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly, O, false-envisaged Folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If wise men were to see't, But only 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. 
