 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Nice Valour.'] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc the nights Wherein you spend your folly 1 There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise...only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyee, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. J'AS. (Siai/s.) " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, I f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1849 - 546 pages
...main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, AH 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. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 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...you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms,... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 342 pages
...Milton. Almost equally fine are the following beautiful lines from a play of Beaumont and Fleteher : Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly l There's nought in this life sweete, If man were wise to see't • ' But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...And point with taper spire to heaven. Where first our marriage-vows were given, MELANCHOLY. BEAUMONT. HENCE ! all you vain delights As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your follv: There's nought in this life sweet, Were raeii but wise to see't, But only melancholy ! 0, sweetest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...-Nice Valour.1] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as arc the nights Wherein you spend your folly t ace) From h $ I Welcome, folded arms, and filed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...remember the beautiful song in Fletcher's piny of The Nice Fa/our, act iii. scene 3., beginning — " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see "t, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy I" Milton wns indebted to it for the idea of his... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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, O sweetest melancholy! 
