 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 624 pages
...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!... | |
 | Books - 1832 - 652 pages
...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,... | |
 | Music - 1834 - 358 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1835 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1839 - 876 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 894 pages
...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.... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1839 - 264 pages
...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 eyes, A sigh that piercing, mortifies ; A look that fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ; Fountain-heads and pathless groves,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...rain. Into this prince gently, oh, gently slide, And kiss himinto slumbers like a bride ! MELANCHOLY. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy... | |
 | william gardiner - 1841 - 500 pages
...unbounded rules the main. The following, we believe, is from the pen of Ben Jonson : — Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein...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 that... | |
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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 ; Oh ! sweetest melancholy. 
