 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
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 324 pages
...Beaumont and Fletcher. (FRAHOIS BEAUXOKT, 1586 — 1615 : JOHN FLETCHER, 1578—1825.) Melancholy. 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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869
...of pomp and state Buried in dust, once dead by fate. — FRANCIS BEAUMONT (1585—1616). MELANCHOLY. 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 597 pages
...the gods ; a thousand chances, Were we from hence, would sever us. FROM "NICE VALOUR." MELANCHOLY. 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English poetry - 1870 - 438 pages
...and aloof, 35 Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. Ben Jonson. XLIV MELANCHOLY. 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, 5 But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871
...imitated in his " Pensieroso," for the poem opens in the same manner, and almost in the same words : — " Hence, all you vain delights ! As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly r There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, Bat only Melancholy ! Welcome folded... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 330 pages
...records some broken vow, And willow-garlands hang on every bough." Garth, Dispensary, vi. 242-50. 632. " Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly l There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy : Oh, sweetest... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 608 pages
...from a play called Tlie Nice Valor, in which Beaumont had no share. MELANCHOLY. [From The Nice Valor.] 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, Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 789 pages
...lost in woes, Whose cup of grief runs o'er. HËNKY NEELE. HENCE, ALL YE VAIN DELIGHTS. HENCE, all ye ! There's naught in this life sweet, If, man were wise to see 4, But only melancholy, O, sweetest melancholy... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 696 pages
...often rumination wraps me In a most hum'rous sadness. Shaketpeare. 2269. MELANCHOLY, Misanthropic. oster ! There's naught in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 4, But only melancholy, O, sweetest melancholy... | |
 | School board readers - 1872
...Ever honoured, ever young! Thus great Pan is ever sung. FKANCIS BEAUMONT: 1586—1615. Melancholy. 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... | |
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