 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...character as those with which Jonson's dramas abound. Of these we subjoin the following : — MELANCHOLY. 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...character as those with which Jon.son's dramas abound. Of these we subjoin the following : — MELANCHOLY. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Weleome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 páginas
...addition of four more such stanzas, hut evidently written by a meaner p«n." IN PRAISE OF MELANCHOLY. HENCE 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 sigh... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 páginas
...; There's naught in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see *t, But only Melancholy ; O sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes; A sigh, that piercing, mortifies ; A look thaft fasten' d to the ground ; A tongue chain' d up without a sound. Fountain heads and pathless groves,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...poets ; but they wear their bays with a difference. FROM THE "NICE VALOB, OR THE PASSIONATE MADMAN" Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you speed your folly! There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy.... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 páginas
...respect and regard, ,Dear sir, . Your most obd't hum. serv't, CLEMENT READ. MELANCHOLY. BY FLETCHER. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | 1852 - 508 páginas
...with respect and regard, Dear sir, Your most obd't hum. aerv't, CLEMENT READ. MELANCHOLY. BY FLETCHER. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wiae to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, aud fixed... | |
 | 1852 - 508 páginas
...with respect and regard, Dear sir, Your most obd't hum. serv't, CLEMENT READ. MELANCHOLY. BY FLETCHER. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...poets ; but they wear their bays with a difference. FROM THE "NICE VALOUB, OB THE PASSIONATE MADMAN." Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you speed your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't, But only melancholy,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 páginas
...bird; — Beauty through my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 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... | |
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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! 
