 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...  Lives of the novelists - Page 268by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801
...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 Wherein you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest melancholy... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 115 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1803 - 458 pages
...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 Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809
...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 Wherein you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, 0 sweetest melancholy... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1810 - 264 pages
...Make not so fair to cause our moan, Or make a heart that's like our own. VIII. MELANCHOLY. 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 ! Welcome, folded... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810
...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 your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to scc't, . Bat oaly melancholly, 0 sweetest melancholly.... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811
...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 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... | |
 | James Peller Malcolm - Costume - 1811 - 576 pages
...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, Wherein you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811
...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 you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; O sweetest melancholy... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Actors - 1812
...song, to which it is evident Milton had a view when he composed his // Penseroso : " 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 't, «' But only melancholy; " Oh,... | |
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