 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 266by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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.... | |
 | Virginia - 1852 - 508 pages
...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 nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wiae to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy... | |
 | William Maxwell - Virginia - 1852 - 500 pages
...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 nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest Melancholy... | |
 | Virginia - 1852 - 508 pages
...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 nights Wherein you spend your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If a man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy; Oh sweetest... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...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,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...seem'd effac'd, The warmth of a meeting like this brings to light. Moore. MELANCHOLY. HENCE all your 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. Beaumont. Melancholy... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1854 - 282 pages
...there be more truth in men, Never shoot at maid again ! * Ascribed to Fletcher. MELANCHOLY. TTENCE, 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 literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...Madman,' an » Address to Melancholy " which is llic perfection of this kind of writing. 11 Hence, nil 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 sce't, But only melancholy, Oil, sweetest melancholy,... | |
 | Robert Bell - Ballads, English - 1855 - 284 pages
...sorrows; And 'till there be more truth in men, Never shoot at maid again ! * Ascribed to Fletcher. 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, Oh, sweetest... | |
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