| John Genest - 1832 - 626 páginas
...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...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A... | |
| John Genest - 1832 - 624 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 páginas
...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...eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 páginas
...the poetry we have just inserted, with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. J?JLS, (Sings.) " 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 ! Welcome, folded... | |
| 1834 - 358 páginas
...cannot resist tlie wish to insert them. They are from Fletcher's Nice Valour, or the Passionate Madman. 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 ;— Oh, sweetest... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1835 - 410 páginas
...that " all is vanity and vexation of spirit : " — he was quite in a mood to say, — " 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 it, But only melancholy ! Nothing so... | |
| 1839 - 876 páginas
...liquid numbers, tender 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... | |
| 1839 - 894 páginas
...liquid numbers, tender images, and apt expressions of this little composition plead our apology. " Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly j There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy.... | |
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