 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 492 pages
...occasion. 81. THE NICE VALOUR; or, The Passionate Madman. Com. by Beaumont and Fletcher. Folio, 1647; Svo. 1778. Scene, Genoa. This is a very indifferent play,...his // Penseroso : " Hence, all ye vain delights, 11 As short as are the nights " Wherein you spend your folly ! " There 's nought in this life sweet,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...they have a merit beyond their own in the opinion of every lover of English poetry. 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 melancholv!... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...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 - 894 pages
...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.... | |
 | 664 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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 - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...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 - 820 pages
...have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. I'.\ ยป. ( \(>/,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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Sings). 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 ! Welcome, folded... | |
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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, O sweetest Melancholy... 
