 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 pages
...even to modern ears, though accustomed to the studied correctness of these latter days : Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; O sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms and fixed... | |
 | Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 620 pages
...vain delights, As short as are (he nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this lite sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy;...melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, \ sigh that pierciiiL' mortifies, A look that's fasteu'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without... | |
 | Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 612 pages
...vain delights, As short as ¡ire the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this liie sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! \Vclcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh tliat piercing mortities, A look that's liistcu'd to... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 500 pages
...song, to which it is evident Milton had a view when he composed his // Penseroso : " Hence, all ye vain delights, " As short as are the nights " Wherein you spend your folly ! " There 's nought in this life sweet, " If men were wise to see 't, «' But only melancholy; " Oh,... | |
 | 1813 - 716 pages
...larger dimensions," they have a merit beyond their own in the opinion of every lover of English poetry. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Oh! sweetest melancholv! Welcome folded arras and 6xed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies; A look that's fasten'd... | |
 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 pages
...of Christ Church. GLEE for Six Voices* S. HENCE all ye vain delights ! As short as are .the-nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...we have just taken from Steele, I cannot withhold the gratification of presenting it lo my readers : Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...your folly) There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest melancholy! Welcome folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...the liquid numbers^ender images, and apt expressions of this little composition plead our apology. " Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...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... | |
 | 664 pages
...insertion will confer a favour on year's respectfully, IOTA. Liverpool, May 29, 1821. HENCE, all yon vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, [f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ' sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...entertaining work, their insertion will confer a favour on your's respectfully, IOTA. Liverpool, May 29, 1821. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein yon spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise 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. 
