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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... "
English Minstrelsy: Being a Selection of Fugitive Poetry from the Best ... - Page 22
edited by - 1810 - 264 pages
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek ..., Volume 2

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...thence we bear the prophecy which begins and ends in thee! PB SHELLEY 1187 MELANCHOLY HENCE all your vain delights, as short as are the nights wherein...sweet if man were wise to see't, but only melancholy, 472 Passages for Translation oh sweetest melancholy ! Welcome folded arms, and fixe'd eyes; a sigh...
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Flowers and Fruit Gathered by Loving Hands from Old English Gardens

Emily Taylor - 1864 - 210 pages
...seasons go and come, While thine forgot lie buried in a tomb. WM. DRUMMOND. MELANCHOLY. JENCE, 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 sight...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 63

1864 - 742 pages
...Antony and Cleopatra. It is unnecessary to allude to Beaumont's lines to Melancholy— " Hence all ye vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly. There's naught in this life sweet, Had. we but wit to see it, But lovely melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy,"...
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Century Types of English Literature Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...fragrant too, As summer's sky or purged air, And looks as lilies do JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625) MELANCHOLY ^ gh he have naught in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest melancholy 1 Welcome...
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Century Types of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly: There's naught that Lady trew, Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew. O sweetest melancholy! Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's...
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The Poems of John Keats

John Keats - 1926 - 730 pages
...in the opening to II Penseroso. Hence, all your vaiu delights, As short as are the nights, \Vherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life...sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy ! etc. For the significance of the Ode in relation with Keats'a train of thought...
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A Review of English Grammar

John Earle Uhler - 1926 - 200 pages
...meat or drink. 8. O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies In the small orb of one particular tear. 9. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! 10. The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare rise ! I will not lodge thee by...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...more: Death, thou shall die ! lthe she of II. 14, 17 JOHN FLETCHER (1579-1625) SWEETEST MELANCHOLY I There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, 5 But only melancholy ; О sweetest...
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The Poems of John Keats

John Keats - 1926 - 726 pages
...all your vain delights, As short as are the nights, WTierein you spend your folly ! There's nought iu this life sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy, Oh sweetest melancholy ! etc. For the significance of the Ode in relation with Keats's train of thought...
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The Laws of Verse

Johannes Carl Andersen - 1928 - 246 pages
...third lines are doubled. The second line of the above may be doubled in the same way as is the fourth: Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly, O, false-envisaged Folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If wise men were to see't, But only Melancholy,...
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