 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 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...sweet, If man were wise to sce't, But only melancholy, Oil, sweetest melancholy, Welcome folded arms nml fixed eyi-s, A sight tluii piercing mortifies; A... | |
 | 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...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. sight... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, 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...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 eyea, A sigh,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...There's 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... | |
 | 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...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! "Welcome, folded arras and fixed eyes, A sigh... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
