 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
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814
...we have just taken from Steele, I cannot withhold the gratification of presenting it lo my readers : 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!... | |
 | England - 1839
...the liquid numbers^ender 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 ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy.... | |
 | ...insertion will confer a favour on year's respectfully, IOTA. Liverpool, May 29, 1821. HENCE, all yon vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, [f man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh ' sweetest... | |
 | 1821
...entertaining work, their insertion will confer a favour on your's respectfully, IOTA. Liverpool, May 29, 1821. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein yon spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 218 pages
...or Passionate Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 356 pages
...or Passionate Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all you vain delights; As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If mau were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 356 pages
...Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all yon 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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...Passionate Madman. The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth tianscribing. 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.... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824
...the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. I'.\ ». ( \(>/,v.) 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... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832
...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 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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