 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...inspiration." LECTURE VI. ON MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, F.BEAUMONT, P. FLETCHER, DRAYTON, DANIEL, &c. SIR P.SIDNEY'S ARCADIA, AND OTHER WORKS. I SHALL, in the present...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If mau were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...Passionate Madman. The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth tianscribing. Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...Melancholy, Oh sweetest Melancholy. Welcome folded arms, and fix'd eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. I'.\ ». ( \(>/,v.) 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 pages
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Sings). Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly f There 's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 pages
...short as are the nights, In which you spend jour 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 eyes, A sigh that piercing, mortifies ; A look that fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 626 pages
...the 3d act, from which Seward says, Milton certainly took many of the sentiments in his II Pensoroso, 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... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 624 pages
...the 3d act, from which Seward says, Milton certainly took many of the sentiments in his H Pensoroso. 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; Ob, sweetest melancholy!... | |
 | 1832 - 652 pages
...rules the main." ' The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Johnson : — ' " Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ; There's naught in this life so sweet, If man were wise to seet't, But only melancholy. Oh ! sweet melancholy,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. Pis. (Singa.) " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Sings.) " 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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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. 
