 | English poets - 1801 - 454 sayfa
...fade ; Yet never will I men persuade To leave affections, where may shine 80 NO. [In the Nice Valour.] 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, O sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms, and fixed... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 sayfa
...Passionate Man." The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth transcribing : — " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein yoti spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 476 sayfa
...stone : But contented lives for aye : The more he laughs the more he may. SONG. [In "The Nice Valour."] 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... | |
 | 1804 - 444 sayfa
...dimensions,'' they have a merit beyond their own, in the opinion of every lover of English poetry. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to sce't, But only melancholy ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes, S A sigh,... | |
 | 1804 - 452 sayfa
...larger dimensions," they have a merit beyond their own, in the opmion of every lover of English poetry. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, i If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Oh! sweetest melancholy! Welcome, folded arms and... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 sayfa
...she, or none, Tlwt I love, and love alone. BE A UMONT and FLETCHER. SONG In the Nice Valour. JJENCE 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, 0 sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms and fixed... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 sayfa
...And till there be more truth in meu, Never shoot at maids agen. THE THUD SONS. Mixed, all you vaine delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend...There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to scc't, . Bat oaly melancholly, 0 sweetest melancholly. Welcome folded armes and fixed eyes, A tight... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 630 sayfa
...powerful charm, Shall banish thee for ever. Cupid. Never, never ! I am too sure thine own. [Exit. Pta. [sings.] Hence, all you vain delights, As short as...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh tliut piercing mortifies, A... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - 1811 - 348 sayfa
...Prynne wrote, I shall give one from the Passionate Madman from the Muses of Beaumont and Fletcher : " 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 Welcome fold'd anus,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 sayfa
...even to modern ears, though accustomed to the studied correctness of these latter days : Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; O sweetest melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms and fixed... | |
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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... 
